Days

<p>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 not only just a record of the meals conversations and health concerns of the author of <em>The Sheltering Sky</em> but also a fascinating look at an artist at work in a new medium. Characterized by a refreshing 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 a Tangier marketplace and the pageantry and excess of Malcolm Forbes's seventieth birthday party. In <em>Days</em> 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 late twentieth-century Tangier.</p>