Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes From the Non-Christian World [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Bowles, Paul

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ISBN 10: 0061137375 ISBN 13: 9780061137372

Casa editrice: EccoPress, 2006

Riassunto

Their Heads are Green and their Hands are Blue is an engaging collection of eight travel essays. Except for one essay on Central America, all of these pieces are concerned with locations in the Hindu, Buddhist, or Islamic worlds. A superb and observant traveler, Paul Bowles was a born wanderer who found pleasure in the inaccessible and who cheerfully endures the concomitant hardships with a matter-of-fact humor.

These essays provide us with Paul Bowles' characteristic insightfulness and bring us closer to a world we frequently hear about, but often find difficult to understand.

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L'autore:

Paul Bowles was born in 1910 and studied music with composer Aaron Copland before moving to Tangier, Morocco. A devastatingly imaginative observer of the West's encounter with the East, he is the author of four highly acclaimed novels: The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, The Spider's House, and Up Above the World. In addition to being one of the most powerful postwar American novelists, Bowles was an acclaimed composer, a travel writer, a poet, a translator, and a short story writer. He died in Morocco in 1999.

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• Editore: EccoPress
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0061137375
• ISBN 13: 9780061137372
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240