Paul BowlesCollected Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)

Beautifully written, mercurial stories, some of which have little plot but are satisfying spots in time, gripping to read as the texture is so rich with detail and the narrator’s opinions and feeling. I am reading these stories out loud and the pace, rhythm, and style is musical, so easy to read butso complex and stimulating in content.

Paul Bowles. What is there to dislike? Super fabtadtic true to life tales of Morocco. Cant vouch for the South American ones but the former are exactly precisely accurate.Having livedAnd walked the same areas in Tangiers for more than three decades the pungent prose brings it all to life. Its all TRUE!!The edition is not bad.More tales of Bowles and Mrabet but at the price its impossible to justify buying

Epic short story writer. A true master of the craft.

I discovered this author when I stumbled on a copy of The Sheltering Sky,and was knocked out by it.I couldn't believe it had been written in the 1940's. These short stories are just as powerful (and bleak) as the novel. Once you've read a bit of Bowles you can see where a lot of other,later writers got their ideas.

The best short-story writer in the known universe ... so yes good very good!

I had read these stories years ago and loved them. Now, upon rereading them, I find them as fresh and revelatory as when I first read these mysterious, dream- like, quasi-hallucinatory short stories.The foreward by Gore Vidal is insightful and worth reading.