Paul Bowles
Paul Bowles wrote claustrophobic, existential fiction set in North Africa, where his characters encounter the void beneath Western civilization. The Sheltering Sky is a masterpiece of dread and displacement.
Works
- The Sheltering SkyNovel of an American couple's disintegration amid the deserts and uncertainties of North Africa
- Let It Come DownNovel following a morally adrift American drug addict in the chaos of Tangier
- The Spider's HouseNovel set in Morocco during nationalist upheaval with competing American and French protagonists
- A Delicate PreyCollection of short stories featuring violence and moral transgression in exotic locales
- Up Above the WorldNovel of an American couple trapped in a decaying Mexican mansion by a hypnotic woman