In Let It Come Down, Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles's second novel is an alternately comic and horrific account of a descent into nihilism.
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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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Book Description Rústica. Condition: Bien. Dust Jacket Condition: Bien. 1. A novel from the pen of Paul Bowles, the author of such works as The Sheltering Sky and Up Above the World. Nelson Dyar, a man without aims or values, reaches North Africa after giving up his job as a New York bank clerk and is drawn into the unfamiliar world of Tangiers expatriate community. LIBRO. Seller Inventory # 86415