The Delicate Prey: And Other Stories
By Paul Bowles
Read by Courtney Patterson and Raphael Corkhill
Unabridged
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2 Formats: Retail CD
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2 Formats: MP3 CD
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$49.99
ISBN: 9798212037617
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$45.95
ISBN: 9798212037624
Runtime: | 9.29 Hours |
Category: | Fiction |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Paul Bowles’s classic collection of short stories
“All the tales are a variety of detective story,” wrote Bowles of this, his first short story collection, “in which the reader is the detective; the mystery is in the motivation for the charcters’ behavior.” In such stories as “A Distant Episode” and How Many Midnights,” Bowles pushes human character beyond socially defined limits and maps 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 yet 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).
Details
Details
Available Formats : | Retail CD, MP3 CD |
Category: | Fiction |
Runtime: | 9.29 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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