New Releases by Paul Bowles

Their Heads are Green and their Hands are Blue is an engaging collection of eight travel essays. Except for one essay on Central America, all of these pieces are concerned with locations in the Hindu, Buddhist, or Islamic worlds. A superb and observant traveler, Paul Bowles was a born wanderer who found pleasure in the inaccessible and who cheerfully endures the concomitant hardships with a matter-of-fact humor. These essays provide us with Paul Bowles'' characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.

Un couple d''Américains en pleine traversée du désert de l''amour, abordant un port de l''angoisse en Amérique centrale, un mystérieux flâneur vivant avec sa jeune compagne adonnée à la drogue dans un appartement trop luxueux : c''est le parfait quatuor d''une chronique exotique. Une mère et son fils dont le chemin croise celui d''un couple de voyageurs. Les visiteurs sont crédules, pleins de préjugés, les jeunes indigènes n''aspirent qu''à la fugue : le voyage, pour les uns comme pour les autres, sera une expérience de transfiguration. Mais ici, la mère en déroute meurt dans un incendie, le couple de voyageurs tombe brusquement malade. La cité de la peur bruisse de bruits inquiétants - le chant des criquets, des voix dans la nuit, le battement d''un tambour, un magnétophone crachant des bruitages -, et le voyage se termine au cours d''une nuit d''épouvante collective, une fiesta où chacun, déguisé en singe et en démon, tente de terroriser son voisin. Le puzzle se reforme. Le piège se referme. La chronique exotique s''achève en drame policier. " La frayeur n''est jamais rien d''autre qu''un assemblage inédit. "

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.

A stunning volume of essays, original articles & reviews, excerpts from travel journals, & images: the first book ever to focus exclusively on Paul Bowles'' career as a composer. Documents & evokes the period during which Bowles was primarily a composer, & includes an incisive new interview with Philip Ramey in which Bowles looks back on his musical career. This is the first volume of a series to be published in conjunction with music festivals organized by Eos Music Inc. in New York.

Fotografier fra Marokko taget af forfatteren Paul Bowles f. 1910; disse giver en visuel oplevelse af temaer fra forfatterskabet

Collected interviews with the author of The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, and The Spider''s House

This 50th anniversary edition of "The Sheltering Sky", one of the great novels of the 20th century, features an original review of the book by Tennessee Williams. "Stands head and shoulders above most other novels published in English since World War II".--"New Republic".