{"product_id":"a-hundred-camels-in-the-paul-bowles-9780872860025","title":"A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThese are four tales of contemporary life in a land where cannabis, rather than alcohol, customarily provides a way out of the phenomenological world. \u003c\/b\u003eThus, of the men in these stories, Salam uses suggestions supplied by smoking kif to rid himself of a possible enemy. He of the Assembly catches himself up in the mesh of his own kif-dream and begins to act it out in reality; Idir's victory over Lahcen is the classical story of the kif-smoker's ability to outwit the drinker. Driss the soldier, with aid of kif, proves the existence of magic to his enlightened superior officer. For all of them the kif-pipe is the means to attaining a state of communication not only with others but above all with themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"His work is art. At his best Paul Bowles has no peer.\" --\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[W]riters and artists such as Williams, Jack Kerouac, Francis Bacon, Christopher Isherwood, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg to Tangier. . .sought Bowles as an oracle, a writer whose work demonstrated its author as an original who saw farther, deeper, and clearer, and who refused to flinch.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Bowles (1910-1999) was an expatriate composer, author, and translator. His other famous literary works include \u003ci\u003eThe Sheltering Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTravels: Collected Writings 1950-1993\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWithout Stopping\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Bowles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0872860027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780872860025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e City Lights Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1962\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 5.51w x 0.30d","brand":"Paul Bowles","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992536645887,"sku":"9780872860025","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b0733acc-07a0-42ae-b269-b3f474fcb230.jpg?v=1683319476","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-hundred-camels-in-the-paul-bowles-9780872860025","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}