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By Paul Bowles

Narrated by: Courtney Patterson, Raphael Corkhill

Unabridged — 9 hours, 17 minutes

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Overview

Paul Bowles's classic collection of short stories

“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.

Bowles captures the duality of human frailty and crue...