Paul Bowles

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books
  • First Book:
    July 1977
  • Latest Book:
    December 2008
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Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • Things Not Gone and Things Still Here

  • Collected Stories

  • She Woke Me Up So I Killed Her

  • Unwelcome Words

    Fiction. In these seven new stories Paul Bowles ranges widely in time, in form, and in geographic area-from Massachusetts to Morocco, from 1932 to the 1970s. Portraits and contemporary scenes mix conventional narration with experimental monologues, a...

  • The Delicate Prey

    Paul Bowles once said that a story should remain taut throughout, like a piece of string. That tense, stretched tone is the key to this collection of 17 eerie tales by the author best known for The Sheltering Sky. The Delicate Prey is ...

  • The Sheltering Sky

    “The Sheltering Sky is one of the most original, even visionary, works of fiction to appear in the twentieth century.” -- Tobias Wolff"It stands head and shoulders above most other novels published in English since World War II.” -- New Repub...

  • Midnight Mass

  • In Touch

  • Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue

    In the nineteenth century there flourished a peculiar breed of Englishmen -- often the second sons of the aristocracy, or ambitious men from a lower class -- who as soldiers, consuls and tea planters, were largely responsible for making England a gre...



  • A Distant Episode

    A Distant Episode conatins the best of Paul Bowle's short fiction, selected by the author. An American cult figure, Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and...

  • Without Stopping

  • Coll Stories Paul Bowles

    Short stories by an American expatriate deal with life in Morocco and Central America and focus on the themes of transference of personal identity, natural landscapes, and the perception of civilization by an outsider...

  • Let It Come Down

    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...

  • A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard

    These are four tales of contemporary life in a land where cannabis, rather than alcohol, customarily provides a way out of the phenomenological world. Thus, of the men in these stories, Salam uses suggestions supplied by smoking kif to rid himself...

  • Bowles: Collected Stories and Later Writings

    “The Library of America has made it easier for readers to enjoy Bowles’s exotic literary harvest.” --  The Columbus Dispatch

    Paul Bowles was a composer, writer, and an American expatriate who spent most of the last five decades of his ...

  • Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky/ Let It Come Down/ The Spider's House

    Paul Bowles had already established himself as an important American composer when, at the age of thirty-eight, he published The Sheltering Sky and became widely recognized as one of the most powerful writers of the postwar period. By the time of h...

  • The Stories of Paul Bowles

    “Bowles’s tales are at once austere, witty, violent, and sensuous. They move with the inevitability of myth. His language has a purity of line, a poise and authority entirley its own.” -- Tobias WolffAn American cult figure, Paul Bowles has fa...

  • The Spider's House

    Originally published in 1955, Paul Bowles’s remarkable novel set in Fez, Morocco, during the last days of the French colonial empire, is an expansive piece of writing -- vintage Bowles"With its atmosphere of sinister tension, its scenes of national...

  • Days

    Between 1987 and 1989, Paul Bowles, at the suggestion of a friend, kept a journal to record the daily events of his life. What emerges is not only just a record of the meals, conversations, and health concerns of the author of The Sheltering Sky b...



  • Up Above the World

    On the terrace of an elaborate hilltop apartment overlooking a Central American capital, four people sit making polite conversation. The American couple -- an elderly physician and his young wife -- are tourists. Their host, whom they have just met, ...

  • Points in Time

    In this intense and brilliant book Bowles focuses on Morocco, condensing experience, emotion, and the whole history of a people into a series of short, insightful vignettes. He distills for us the very essence of Moroccan culture. With extraordina...

  • Too Far from Home

    A striking collection of stories, poems, letters, travel essays, journal entries, excerpts from three novels, and more -- including the complete text of The Sheltering Sky -- from one of the most revered authors of the twentieth century

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  • A Life Full of Holes

    One of the most unusual literary innovations ever produced, A Life Full of Holes is the result of a singular collaboration between two remarkable individuals: Driss ben Hamed Charhadi, an illiterate North African servant and street vendor, and legend...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Paul Bowles has published 23 books.

Paul Bowles does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Life Full of Holes, was published in December 2008.

The first book by Paul Bowles, Things Not Gone and Things Still Here, was published in July 1977.

No. Paul Bowles does not write books in series.
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