Paul Bowles reads this classic suite of Moroccan kif stories that he recorded in Tangier, Morocco, in the Fall of 1978. Previously released as a 2 LP recording in 1981, and long sold out, these stories are now available again in this audiobook format. Bowles' accompanying essay for this recording is[...]
This concise book examines the interaction between earlier and other writers,
painters (and anthropologists) and Morocco, and then examines the effects of this
culture and its magical practices upon the person, psyche and writings of Paul
Bowles.
Interwoven into this work is a memoir, [...]
Brings together the author's travel writing and journals. This title includes the full text of his books "Their Heads Are Green" and "Days: A Tangier Journal", along with more than twenty other pieces, illustrated with photographs.[...]
Capitalism is a subject of enduring interest, rediscovered and reevaluated by each successive generation of students; this new Seminar Study provides a concise, lucid and thought-provoking introduction to the history of this most ubiquitous and successful of economic systems.[...]
"The Sheltering Sky" is a landmark of 20th-century literature, a novel of existential despair that examines the limits of humanity when it touches the unfathomable emptiness of the desert. Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Connelly ("A Beautiful Mind," "Requiem for a Dream") gives masterful voi[...]
Driven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed's family walks to Tangiers in search of a better life. But things are no better there. Eight of his siblings die of malnutrition and neglect, and one is killed by his father in a fit of rage. This is a memoir of a young Moroccan boy's coming of ag[...]