Days: A Tangier Diary
by Paul Bowles
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Between 1987 and 1989, Paul Bowles, at the suggestion of a friend, kept a journal to record the daily events of his life. What emerges is not only just a record of the meals, conversations, and health concerns of the author of The Sheltering Sky but also a fascinating look at an artist at work in a new medium. Characterized by a refreshing informality, clear-sightedness, and passages of exquisite prose, these pages record with equal fascination the behavior of an itinerant spider, a brutal show more episode of violence in a Tangier marketplace, and the pageantry and excess of Malcolm Forbes's seventieth birthday party. In Days, a master observer of the foreign and obscure turns his attentions toward his own daily existence, giving us a startlingly candid portrait of his life in late twentieth-century Tangier. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- Days: A Tangier Diary
- Alternate titles
- Days: Tangier Journal, 1987–1989; Two Years Beside the Strait: Tangier Journal, 1987–1989
- Original publication date
- 1991
- People/Characters
- Paul Bowles
- Important places
- Tangier, Morocco; Morocco
- Disambiguation notice
- U.S. edition published as: Days : Tangier journal, 1987-1989.
U.K. edition published as: Two years beside the Strait : Tangier journal, 1987-1989.
These are the same work.
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- Genres
- Biography & Memoir, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 818.5403 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American miscellaneous writings in English 20th Century 1945-1999 Diaries
- LCC
- PS3552 .O874 .Z465 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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