The Delicate Prey Deluxe Edition: And Other Stories Paperback - 2015
by Paul Bowles; Foreword by Vendela Vida
From the rear cover
From master storyteller Paul Bowles comes a new addition to ecco's the art of the story series--"essential reading" for any witness to the magic of the short form, writes vendela vida
All the tales are a variety of detective story," writes 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, mapping 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 and profound, 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).
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- Title The Delicate Prey Deluxe Edition: And Other Stories
- Author Paul Bowles; Foreword by Vendela Vida
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco Press
- Date 2015-06-23
- Features Maps
- ISBN 9780062393852 / 0062393855
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5 x 0.9 in (20.07 x 12.70 x 2.29 cm)
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