{"product_id":"delicate-prey","title":"Delicate Prey","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDelicate Prey\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePaul Bowles\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780061137341\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eEcco\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2006\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e320\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Bowles's classic collection of short stories, now available in a a deluxe paperback edition--part of Ecco's Art of the Story series\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“All the tales are a variety of detective story,” wrote Bowles of this, his first short story collection, “in which the reader is the detective; the mystery is in the motivation for the charcters' behavior.” In such stories as “A Distant Episode” and How Many Midnights,” Bowles pushes human character beyond socially defined limits and maps a transformed (often horribly transformed) reality. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBowles captures the duality of human frailty and cruelty in these seventeen taut and atmospheric tales, written between 1939 and 1949. Brutal and gorgeous, visceral yet profound, this timeless collection is “one of the most profound, beautifully wrought, and haunting collections in our literature. . . at once austere, witty, violent, and sensuous. . . . His language has a purity of line, a poise and authority entirely its own, capable of instantly modulating from farce to horror without a ruffle” (Tobias Wolff).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Delicate Prey | Paul Bowles | Paperback | 9780061137341 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks A 1774367","offer_id":49674922098840,"sku":"1774367","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/51w-PG4Z76L.jpg?v=1786561635","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/delicate-prey","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}