Best Selling Books by Paul Bowles

Paul Bowles’s classic collection of short stories, available in a deluxe paperback edition—part of Ecco’s Art of the Story series. “All the tales are a variety of detective story,” wrote Bowles of this, his first short story collection, “in which the reader is the detective; the mystery is in the motivation for the characters’’ behavior.” In such stories as “A Distant Episode” and How Many Midnights,” Bowles pushes human character beyond socially defined limits and maps a transformed (often horribly transformed) reality. Bowles captures the duality of human frailty and cruelty in these seventeen taut and atmospheric tales, written between 1939 and 1949. Brutal and gorgeous, visceral yet perceptive, this timeless collection is “one of the most profound, beautifully wrought, and haunting collections in our literature. . . at once austere, witty, violent, and sensuous. . . . His language has a purity of line, a poise and authority entirely its own, capable of instantly modulating from farce to horror without a ruffle” (Tobias Wolff).

Let It Come Down, with its title from Macbeth, tells the story of Dyar, a New York bank clerk who throws up his secure, humdrum job to find a reality abroad with which to identify himself, and his macabre experiences in the inferno of Tangiers as he gives 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 is an alternately comic and horrific account of a descent into nihilism.

This edition presents a short story by Paul Bowles, illustrated by the photographer Vittorio Santoro.

This book provides an innovative and systematic analysis of the implications of the theories of globalization for national currencies; and critically examines whether, as a result, the world is heading for fewer currencies.

As part of the series "Socialism and Social Movements", this volume explores the conditions and prospects of China moving toward a type of developmental state. The lessons of economic and political reform in Eastern Europe are discussed in relation to the overall topic.

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 in Australia, Canada and Mexico is analysed. Trade agreements are analysed in detail to explore the new forms that dependence and subordination have taken. Arguing that the free trade agreements are significantly biased in favour of the United States, the contributors analyse how each of the three countries are being subject to specific forms of re-peripheralisation and examine possible alternatives for a progressive future based on an integration in the global economy which enhances, rather than limits, democracy and social justice. By providing an historical and critical account of trade policy in the three countries, the book provides a welcome antidote to the ahistorical accounts of free trade supporters.

The Answer Is Still No is an important, urgent book that compiles interviews with people who live along the route of the proposed Enbridge pipeline in Northern British Columbia. The oil pipeline and supertankers – linking the tar sands of Alberta to the demand of the growing Asian market – are a key component of Canada’s strategy of natural resource extraction. But for the people living along the proposed pipeline route, Enbridge poses a massive environmental risk, which threatens their way of life. This edited collection takes the passionate words and voices of twelve citizens and activists and results in one powerful position when it comes to blind economic development at the expense of our environment and communities: The answer is still “no.”

Claudio Bravo is one of the world''s greatest hyperrealist painters, but such a label is too simple and insufficient for his dramatic, enigmatic work.

Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un joven y refinado matrimonio de Nueva York, Port y Kit Moresby, viaja al desierto norteafricano acompañado de su amigo Tunner. Bajo el impresionante paisaje que los rodea se esconden los peligros de una cultura que les es completamente ajena y un entorno natural hostil. Poco a poco, el vacío y la crueldad del lugar los conducen hasta los límites de la razón. El cielo protector es la obra más aclamada de Paul Bowles y una de las cumbres de la literatura americana del siglo XX. Traducida íntegramente de nuevo, la novela incluye hoy el prólogo escrito por Bowles para la última edición americana que preparó en vida. Tennessee Williams, en una elogiosa crítica escrita para The New York Times Book Review en 1949, dijo de la obra: «En su aspecto externo, la novela es la narración de una asombrosa aventura. En su aspecto interno, El cielo protector es una alegoría de la aventura espiritual del hombre plenamente consciente en la vida moderna.»

Nella fresca campagna di Cold Point non si incontrano case per chilometri e chilometri. Rifugiarvisi, portare tuo figlio lontano da scuola e distrazioni, sembra la soluzione migliore per ricercare quel rapporto perduto. Eppure, nelle placide acque del lago di Cold Point potrebbero emergere turbamenti a lungo sommersi. E potrebbe essere impossibile celarli ai pochi ma vigili occhi che scrutano l''estraneo.Tratto da “La delicata preda”, pubblicato da Feltrinelli. Numero di caratteri: 53352.

World-weary Anita escapes her routine NY life and joins her brother in the African desert, but here the boundaries of her world disintegrate and she finally is compelled to return to what she knows.