The Dream at the End of the World - Paul Bowles and the Literary Renegades in Tangier by Green, Michelle - 1992

London: Bloomsbury, 1992. A Very Good copy which has a light indentation to front, a small stain to fore edge and a loose illustration else unmarked with dustjacket which is not price clipped and has light creasing to lower edges. xvi + 381 pages. 41 illustrations. To the expatriates who landed there in the post-war years, the International Zone of Tangier was an exotic and deliciously depraved version of Eden. A sybaritic outpost set against the verdant hills of North Africa, it offered a free money market and a moral climate in which only murder and rape were forbidden. Fleeing an angst-ridden Western culture, Europen emigres found a haven where homosexuality was openly tolerated, drugs were readily available, and eccentricity was held to be a social asset. A richly detailed portrait of an extraordinary group of individuals - writers and heiresses,drug addicts and pederasts, artists and con-men. At the centre of the extravagant community were Paul and Jane Bowles, a critically acclaimed writer and composer, Paul found Morocco the perfect setting for his perverse, visionary fiction, and for the quotidian intrigue that he loved. For Jane - a brilliant playwright plagued by anxiety and terrified of her own talent - Tangier was as sinister as it was tantalizing. When her husband became mentor to a young Moroccan painter, she fell in love with a manipulative peasant woman who, some said, used black magic to keep Jane in sway. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.845 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST L. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.