Without Stopping

Name: Without Stopping
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Paul Bowles
ISBN: 9780063136359

Author: Paul Bowles

Narrator: Tom Zahner

Unabridged: 15 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/13/2022

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs, Travel, Literary Nonfiction

Synopsis

Paul Bowles, the acclalmed author of The Shelterlng Sky, offers movlng, powerful, subtle, and fasclnatlng lnslghts lnto hls llfe, hls wrltlng, and hls world.

About Paul Bowles

Paul Bowles was born in 1910 and studied music with composer Aaron Copland before moving to Tangier, Morocco. A devastatingly imaginative observer of the West's encounter with the East, he is the author of four highly acclaimed novels: The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, The Spider's House, and Up Above the World. In addition to being one of the most powerful postwar American novelists, Bowles was an acclaimed composer, a travel writer, a poet, a translator, and a short story writer. He died in Morocco in 1999.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jordan

This book is only great if you are a Paul Bowles lover. The writing it good (of course) and the sentences are amazingly wry and pithy sometimes but he is not trying here for some outstanding work of autobiography. The narrative meanders and name-drops and lets you in on how and where he came about w......more

Goodreads review by Patrick

I have long been an admirer of the American author, composer, and poet Paul Bowles. I have read almost all that he has written so I felt it was time to to read his autobiography, Without Stopping (1972). Bowles lived a very interesting life, but I must admit that the first third of the book-the part......more

Goodreads review by Josh

Pleasantly surprised by much I never knew. What a better time to be alive.......more

Goodreads review by Pahail

"я никогда не задавался вопросом о том, могу ли сказать что-либо, что в состоянии заинтересовать других людей. у меня была цель - всеми возможными способами навязать людям свою личность, никаких других целей я перед собой не ставил"......more