An Invisible Spectator

Sawyer-Laucanno, Christopher

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Author
Sawyer-Laucanno, Christopher
Publish Date
1989
Subtitle
A Biography of Paul Bowles
Book Type
Paperback
Number of Pages
501
Publisher Name
119
ISBN-10
0802136001
ISBN-13
9780802136008
citemno
043937
SKU
9780802136008

Description

Paul Bowles's seductive, terrifying, exquisitely detached fictions have inspired writers and iconoclasts from the Beats to the present day. In this brilliant and definitive biography, the result of exhaustive research as well as in-depth interviews with Bowles himself and with those who knew him best, Christopher Sawyer-Lau"anno unlocks the mystique that surrounds the man and his work. An Invisible Spectator chronicles Bowles's early years as a composer and rising literary luminary, his marriage to tormented author Jane Bowles, his voluntary exile in North Africa, where he presided over the famous expatriate community of Tangiers--all of it interwoven with vivid depictions of Bowles's intimates, including Truman Capote, Gertrude Stein, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs.