Days

Between 1987 and 1989 Paul Bowles at the suggestion of a friend kept a journal to record the daily events of his life. What emerges is more than just a record of the meals conversations and health concerns of the author of The Sheltering Sky but a fascinating look at an artist at work in a new medium. Characterized by a refreshinng informality clear-sightedness and passages of exquisite prose these pages record with equal fascination the behavior of an itinerant spider a brutal episode of violence in Tangier marketplace and the pageantry and excess of Malcolm Forbes'' 70th birthday party. In Days a master observer of the foreign and obscure turns his attentions toward his own daily existence giving us a startlingly candid portrait of his life in contemporary Tangier.