In Search of
Lost Time...is a
riveting read...
provided you
read it fast.
Ecco
ISBN-10 006083482X
1987 the late Gore Vidal wrote an
influential essay in The New York
Review of Books, an encomium
to Powell which prompted her
rediscovery by publishers, critics
and readers and garnered her
fame she never attained in her
lifetime; she donated her body to
Cornell, her remaining parts are
interred in Potter's Field. Powell's
funniest books are her New York
novels: Angels on Toast, The
Happy Island (a Satyricon style
study of New York's 'bachelors'),
The Golden Spur and A Time to
be Born, the latter an uproarious
send up of Clare Boothe Luce.
"Write about what you know"
is invariably the advice given
to aspiring writers. What Paul
Bowles knew best was a world far
removed from the peculiar safety
of the Western metropolis, living
in Tangier, Morocco, from 1947
until his death in 1999, writing
novels and short stories about the
encounter between Americans
and Moroccans and the ensuing,
sometimes shocking dissolution
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