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In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles by Paul Bowles
13 Sep 2022
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564554to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles Author: Paul Bowles Narrator: Tom Zahner, Timothy Andrés Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 28 hours 54 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: This extraordinary collection of correspondence by Paul Bowles spans eight decades and provides an evolving portrait of an artist renowned for his privacy. From his earliest extant letter, written at the age of four, to his precocious effusions to Aaron Copeland and to Gertrude Stein; from his meditations on mescaline as relayed to Ned Rorem, to his intensely moving letters to Jane Bowles during her illness, In Touch fills in the lacunae left by previous biographers and offers a rare look at the many aspects of Bowles's brilliant career—as composer, novelist, short-story master, travel writer, translator, ethnographer, and literary critic. Here is Bowles on the genesis of his first novel, The Sheltering Sky; on his distaste for Western melodies and his dogged attempts to record indigenous Moroccan music; on the Beats, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Tennessee Williams; on the nature and craft of writing; on Bernardo Bertolucci, David Byrne, and Sting; on the decline of American and the challenges of living in North Africa. Gossipy, reflective, enlightening, and always entertaining, In Touch stands as an epistolary autobiography of one of the legendary writers of our time, and a unique chronicle of the twentieth-century avant-garde. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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