The Delicate Prey

The Delicate Prey

Title: The Delicate Prey
Author: Paul Bowles
Release: 2021-02-09
Kind: ebook
Genre: Short Stories, Books, Fiction & Literature, Science & Nature, Life Sciences
Size: 708747
Paul Bowles once said that a story should remain taut throughout, like a piece of string. That tense, stretched tone is the key to this collection of 17 eerie tales by the author best known for The Sheltering Sky. The Delicate Prey is dedicated: "For my mother, who first read me the stories of Poe." If Poe had lived in Mexico, and he'd had ice water running in his veins to counteract his feverish romanticism, he might have crafted something like these odd vignettes about human frailty and cruelty. The setting is a world where palm trees are like "shiny green spiders," where bats reel silently overhead in a jet-black sky, where a hot, relentless wind blows across deserted plazas.

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