The Stories of Paul BowlesBowless tales are at once austere, witty, violent, and sensuous. They move with the inevitability of myth. His language has a purity of line, a poise and authority entirley its own. Tobias Wolff An American cult figure, Paul Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and Tobias Wolff. From The Delicate Prey to Too Far from Home, this definitive collection celebrates

Across the way lives Ma Charles’s half sister

secret night-time excursions

He looks back over his fifteen-year professional career—from becoming the youngest player to win MLS Goalkeeper of the Year to his storied move to the English Premier League with Manchester United and his current team

But a dead man has risen

and Mike Berenstain

set in Iraq during the second world war

Rogers fires her for her muddles

private corners of St

it will be up to Sky and her friends to save humanity from the very edge of extinction

He’s terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself

the facts surrounding Chief Tolliver’s death

Cordelia soon realizes she’s not the only one who can see the ghosts