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Article: Paul Bowles: A Life
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- Opera News
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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Paul Bowles: A Life by Virginia Spencer Carr Scribner, 432 pp. $35
It's hard to get a grip on Paul Bowles. In preparing this authorized biography of the free-spirited author, composer, translator, poet and critic (who lived from 1910 to 1999), Virginia Spencer Carr enjoyed certain advantages. With most of the actors dead and many taboos lifted, she could freely explore the intimate relationships with males and a few females, including, briefly, his wife, author Jane Bowles. Carr spent time with Bowles during his final decade, arranging his medical treatment in the U.S. and taping his comments on the major chapters of his life, especially the bizarre, precocious early years and his "open" ...