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  • For Bread Aloneby Mohamed Choukri; Paul Bowles

    Saqi 2012; US$ 10.19

    Driven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed?s family walks to Tangier in search of a better life. But things are no better there. Eight of Mohamed?s siblings die of malnutrition and neglect, and one is killed by his father in a fit of rage. On moving to another province Mohamed learns how to charm and steal, and discovers the joys of drugs,... more...

  • National Currencies and Globalizationby Paul Bowles

    Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95

    Globalization and money - two concepts inextricably linked. In many ways the speed with which financial resources traverse the globe, the opportunities which this provides for the efficient allocation of resources, the possibilities which this creates for financial crises and traders who act as agents removed from the concerns of national citizens... more...

  • The Stories of Paul Bowlesby Paul Bowles

    HarperCollins 2010; US$ 16.99

    The short fiction of American literary cult figure Paul Bowles is marked by a unique, delicately spare style, and a dark, rich, exotic mood, by turns chilling, ironic, and wry?possessing a symmetry between beauty and terror that is haunting and ultimately moral. In "Pastor Dowe at Tecaté," a Protestant missionary is sent to a faraway place where his... more...

  • Travelsby Paul Bowles

    HarperCollins 2011; US$ 13.99

    Inmore than forty essays and articles that range from Paris to Ceylon, Thailand to Kenya, and, of course, Morocco, the great twen-tieth-century American writer encapsulates his long and full life, and sheds light on his brilliant fiction. Whether he?s recalling the cold-water artists? flats of Paris?s Left Bank or the sun-worshipping eccentrics of... more...

  • The Sheltering Skyby Paul Bowles

    HarperCollins 2011; US$ 12.99

    The Sheltering Sky is a landmark of twentieth-century literature. In this intensely fascinating story, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans' incomprehension of alien cultures leads to the ultimate destruction of those cultures. A story about three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II,... more...

  • The Delicate Preyby Paul Bowles

    HarperCollins 2011; US$ 12.99

    Exemplary storles that reveal the blzarre, the dlsturblng, the perllous, and the wlse ln other clvlllzatlons -- from one of Amerlca's most lmportant wrlters of the twentleth century. more...

  • Let it Come Downby Paul Bowles

    HarperCollins 2011; US$ 13.99

    In Let It Come Down , Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles's second novel... more...

  • The Spider's Houseby Paul Bowles

    HarperCollins 2011; US$ 12.99

    Set in Fez, Morocco, during that country's 1954 nationalist uprising, The Spider's House is perhaps Paul Bowles's most beautifully subtle novel, richly descriptive of its setting and uncompromising in its characterizations. Exploring once again the dilemma of the outsider in an alien society, and the gap in understanding between cultures?recurrent... more...

  • International Trade and Neoliberal Globalismby Paul Bowles; Ray Broomhill; Teresa Gutiérrez-Haces; Stephen McBride

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 150.00

    International trade must be analysed within the historical context within which it occurs. Behind the statistics on trade flows lie power structures, class interests and international hierarchies. These change over time and how countries respond to them has critical implications for their citizen?s well-being. In this book, the history of trade... more...

  • Everything is Niceby Jane Bowles; Paul Bowles

    Sort Of Books 2012; US$ 13.11

    Definitive edition of stories, with a biographical note and photos THIS NEW COLLECTION gathers together all of Jane Bowles?s fictional work (except her novel, Two Serious Ladies). It includes all of her stories, her plays, the excised sections of Two Serious Ladies (which was originally Three Serious Ladies), fragments of two unfinished novels (Out... more...