The Spider's House

A Novel

by Paul Bowles

On Sale: 11/15/2011

The Spider's House

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The Spider's House

A Novel

by Paul Bowles

On Sale: 11/15/2011

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About the Book

Originally published in 1955, Paul Bowles’s remarkable novel set in Fez, Morocco, during the last days of the French colonial empire, is an expansive piece of writing—vintage Bowles

"With its atmosphere of sinister tension, its scenes of nationalist conspiracy and French police action, of escape and pursuit in the Arab quarter, The Spider's House reads for stretches like a first-class political thriller." -New York Times

The dilemma of the outsider in an alien society, and the gap in understanding between cultures, recurrent themes of Paul Bowles’s writings, are dramatized with brutal honesty in this novel set in Fez, Morocco, during that country’s 1954 nationalist uprising. Totally relevant to today’s political situation in the Middle East and elsewhere, richly descriptive of its setting, and uncompromising in its characterizations, The Spider’s House is perhaps Bowles’s best, most beautifully subtle novel.

Critical Praise

"With its atmosphere of sinister tension, its scenes of nationalist conspiracy and French police action, of escape and pursuit in the Arab quarter, The Spider's House reads for stretches like a first-class political thriller." — New York Times

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Product Details

  • ISBN: 9780062119360
  • ISBN 10: 0062119362
  • Imprint: Ecco
  • On Sale: 11/15/2011
  • Pages: 432
  • List Price:11.99 CAD
  • BISAC1 : FICTION / Science Fiction / General
  • BISAC2 : FICTION / Historical
  • BISAC3 : FICTION / Literary
  • BISAC4 : FICTION / Political
  • BISAC5 : FICTION / Contemporary Women

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