{"product_id":"days-a-tangier-diary-9780061137365","title":"Days: A Tangier Diary","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Sheltering Sky\u003c\/em\u003e 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 episode of violence in a Tangier marketplace, and the pageantry and excess of Malcolm Forbes's seventieth birthday party. In \u003cem\u003eDays\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBowles, Paul:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003ePaul 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: \u003cem\u003eThe Sheltering Sky\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLet It Come Down\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Spider's House\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eUp Above the World\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50317865845010,"sku":"9780061137365","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7cf344f1-f35b-4055-88be-91c359396c88.jpg?v=1727541685","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/days-a-tangier-diary-9780061137365","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}