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Book Description
The story of three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II examines the way Americans apprehend an alien culture and the way their incomprehension destroys them.
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- English Books
- Paperback 335 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0679729798
- ISBN-13: 9780679729792
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Mar 17, 1990
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9780679729792 | Paperback | $13.00 | -- | The Book Depository |
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The one story that always seems to stick in my mind and encapsulate the fiction of Paul Bowles is "A Distant Episode," the last story in his first collection, The Delicate Prey and Other Stories. It is the story of an unnamed European or western Prof ... (read full critics)