{"product_id":"points-in-time-tales-from-morocco-9780061139635","title":"Points in Time: Tales from Morocco","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this intense and brilliant book Bowles focuses on Morocco, condensing experience, emotion, and the whole history of a people into a series of short, insightful vignettes. He distills for us the very essence of Moroccan culture. With extraordinary immediacy, he takes the reader on a journey through the Moroccan centuries, pausing at points along the way to create resonant images of the country, it's landscapes, and the beliefs and characteristics of its inhabitants.\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":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50459894317330,"sku":"9780061139635","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_87fa8371-da57-4439-b4cf-709664f13c34.jpg?v=1730012412","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/points-in-time-tales-from-morocco-9780061139635","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}