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Paul Bowles
Born
in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York, The United States
December 10, 1910
Died
November 18, 1999
Website
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The Sheltering Sky
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1949
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5 editions
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Let It Come Down
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published
1952
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80 editions
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The Spider's House
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published
1955
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62 editions
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The Stories of Paul Bowles
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published
2001
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18 editions
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Up Above the World
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published
1966
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70 editions
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The Delicate Prey and Other Stories
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published
1950
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47 editions
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Collected Stories, 1939-1976
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published
1979
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32 editions
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Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World
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published
1957
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31 editions
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A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories
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published
1992
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21 editions
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A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard
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published
1962
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20 editions
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“Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”
― The Sheltering Sky
― The Sheltering Sky
“Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.”
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“How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”
― The Sheltering Sky
― The Sheltering Sky
Polls
March 2016 New School Group Read
1950, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, 182 pages
1987, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, 296 pages
1965, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, 343 pages
1972, Watership Down by Richard Adams, 481 pages
1955, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 307 pages
1966, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 360 pages
1963, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, 179 pages
1928, Orlando by Virginia Woolf, 228 pages
1987, Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pages
1927, Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, 297 pages
1940, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, 368 pages
1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages
1919, Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, 240 pages
1958, The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, 567 pages
1920, Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset, 1168 pages
1937, Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato, 256 pages
1956, The Black Obelisk by Erich Maria Remarque, 448 pages
1949, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 342 pages
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