Let It Come Down
$25.43
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
3 December 2009
Summary
Bowles’s sensational second novel of dissent, decadence and oblivion
Let It Come Down, with its title from Macbeth, tells the story of Dyar, a New York bank clerk who throws up his secure, humdrum job to find a reality abroad with which to identify himself, and his macabre experiences in the inferno of Tangiers as he gives in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, B…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141182209 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141182202 |
| Author: | Paul Bowles, Barnaby Rogerson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 3 December 2009 |
| Weight: | 253g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Paul Bowles
Born in New York in 1910, Paul Bowles is considered one of the most remarkable American authors of the twentieth century. He studied music with composer Aaron Copland before moving to Tangier, Morocco, with his wife, Jane. His first novel, The Sheltering Sky, was a bestseller in the 1950s and was made into a film by Bernardo Bertolucci in 1990. Bowles’s prolific career included many musical compositions, novels, collections of short stories, and books of travel, poetry, and translations.
Barnaby Rogerson, as well as running travel classics publisher Eland, has written A Traveller’s History of North Africa (1998). He has also compiled several collections: Marrakech, the Red City (2003), a collection of Moroccan travel literature; Desert Air, a pocket edition of English Orientalist verse; and Meetings with Remarkable Muslims (2005), a collection of contemporary travel writing.
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