The Spider's House
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780876855478 (0876855478)
Publish date: January 1st 1982
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
Pages no: 406
Edition language: English
The major portion of this book, the first 80%, is an utterly enchanting meditation on an exotic land (Morocco) and the contrasts between the archaic and modernity. The writing is brilliant. But the final part of the story either wobbled or, in my view, just collapsed - as Bowles simply didn't know h...