About this title: This autobiographical work by Paul Bowles contains some of the qualities of his best fiction-writing: lyrical language, concise observation, and a glimpse of the mystery at the heart of things. The book is so unrevealing about the personal details of his life that Jane Bowles jokingly called it "Without Telling," but it does provide a fascinating ...
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Description: Good. 0720604028 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Description: Ecco Press, 1985. 377 pages. Trade paperback. Photos. Index. Good. Would be nice copy, but heavy bump bottom of the spine makes this a reading copy. No names or marks. ISBN: 0880010614. read more
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Ecco Press, New York
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780880010610ISBN:0880010614
Description: Very Good- Pictorial wraps, 377 pp., photos. Lightly worn covers with faint creases on spine, clean and unmarked, tight binding. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1999-07-01
ISBN-13:9780880016759ISBN:0880016752
Description: New. Paperback. You are buying a Book in NEW condition with very light shelf wear to include very light edge and corner wear. Buy it Now! ! ! As always, thank you for buying this book from International Book Source, YOUR ONE source FOR ALL your BOOK related NEEDS. Please remember to CHOOSE carefully how QUICKLY you would like to RECEIVE this material FAST, or standard (on next page). Thanks again! ! ! ! read more
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Tangiers, Noted writer and his writing wife, Jane. 377 pages, illustrated. Name in back, small bend back cover. read more
Binding: S Trade Paperback
Publisher: Ecco Pr, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780880012676ISBN:0880012676
Description: As New. This book is solid and square with an unlined spine and lovely cover and appears to be unread. If you dig books like I dig books--YOU'LL DIG THIS BOOK! read more
Description: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1972 (Hardback with dj, dj mildly worn with rips and chips, bookplate, pencil notes and underlines, o/w good condition) read more
"Hugely disappointing. Except for his childhood, which is brillaintly recounted, Paul Bowles reveals nothing of himself and his affective life. THe book becomes a list of who's who of the time and more like a travel journal. I suppose, being a homo/bi-sexual, he wanted to hide his private life but it is a pity that he undertook to write an autobiography at all. His novels are much more revealing , particularly 'Let it all Come Down' and the Sheltering Sky.'"
"Hmmm...I wrote a review for Sheltering Sky, and now I can't remember if I was thinking correctly about that, or if I was remembering this one instead. I think I liked them both, and my memory of them both is that slow, long, dry kind of read, but not such as making me want to put the book down..."
"William Burroughs said this book should have been called " Without Telling." In theory this should have been a gossip ridden book galore. But alas, not in Bowles style. Worth a read and then read one of his biographies."
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