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A Distant Episode

By: Paul Bowles
Narrated by: Tom Zahner, Raphael Corkhill
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A Distant Episode contains the best of Paul Bowles's short stories, as selected by the author. An American cult figure, Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and Jay McInerney.

Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Short Stories

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