Let it come down / Paul Bowles, with a pref. by the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-3)

Physical Description:

292 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, CA : Black Sparrow Press, 1980.

Summary:

First published in 1952, Paul Bowles' novel Let It Come Down (the citation from Shakespeare's Macbeth) celebrates an era within the city of Tangier which, as Bowles notes in his Preface "Thirty Years Later", "has long ago ceased to exist. . . . Like a photograph, the tale is a document relating to a specific place at a given moment in time, illuminated by the light of that particular moment". The final section of the novel, "Another Kind of Silence", was famously written in Xauen in the Rif mountains while under the influence of kif.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 is paperback edition.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 is paperback edition, eighth printing, 2000.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 3 is hardcover edition, ninth printing, 2001.

ISBN:

0876854803 :

OCLC:

6863305