- American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, general, Central america, fiction
La vie est une jungle où les êtres se croisent, se guettent comme autant de chasseurs à l'affût de leurs proies.Mais le docteur Slade et sa femme n'étaient guère préparés à livrer de nouveaux combats lorsqu'ils accostèrent dans un port sordide d'Amérique centrale pour y recommencer leur lune de miel.Dans une ville des hauts-plateaux, le couple rencontre Vero, un charmeur et sa belle compagne Luchita.
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Classical in form, grave, relentless and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Paul Bowles
- First published
- 1966
- Pages
- 223
- Publisher
- Ecco Press, HarperCollins Publishers, Alfaguara bolsillo
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- French, German, English
- ISBN
- 9780140031171
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“THE DOCK WAS AT THE END of the street; from there they could see the ship, huge and unmoving in the center of the circular bay.”
Paul Frederic Bowles (December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. He became associated with Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life. Following a cultured middle-class upbringing in New York City, during which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued his education at the University of Virginia before making several trips to Paris in the 1930s. He studied music with Aaron Copland, and in New York wrote music for theatrical productions, as well as other compositions. He achieved critical and popular success with his first novel The Sheltering Sky (1949), set in what was known as Fr
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