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Let It Come Down : A Novel by Paul Bowles, with a pref. by the author is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In Let It Come Down , Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles's second novel is an alternately comic and horrific account of a descent into nihilism. About the Author Paul Bowles was born in Queens, New York, in 1910. He began his travels as a teenager, setting off for Paris, telling no one of his plans. In 1930 he visited Morocco for the first time, with Aaron Copland, with whom he was studying music. His early reputation was as a composer and he wrote the scores for several Tennessee Williams plays. Bowles married the writer Jane Auer in 1938, and after the war the couple settled in Tangier. In Morocco Bowles turned principally to fiction. The Sheltering Sky —inspired by his travels in the Sahara—was a New York Times bestseller in 1950, and has gone on to sell more than 250,000 copies. It was followed by three further novels, numerous short stories, nonfiction, and translations. Bowles died in Tangier in 1999.

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Author

Paul Bowles, with a pref. by the author

Publisher

HarperCollins;Ecco

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780876854808

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Thriller, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.94 / 5 (1,203 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14