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The Spider's House
by Paul Bowles
ISBN: 087685546X
ISBN-13: 9780876855461
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
Paul Bowles's novel THE SPIDER'S HOUSE (1955), like so much of his work, is set in Morocco-this one in 1954, during the Moroccan struggle for independence. In exploring his perennial theme of the difficulty of understanding between cultures, Bowles has created a psychological thriller that takes us into the mind of both an American writer named John Stenham and an illiterate and impoverished 15-year-old Muslim terrorist, Amar, whose life is centered on Islam and who provides Bowles's nuanced and often surprising view of the "other." As the paths of these two, inevitably, cross in the troubled city of Fez, Bowles illuminates not only his subtly drawn characters but an important episode in Morocco's history. He also provides ever-relevant insights into the nature of terrorism. The title of the novel comes from the Koran: "The likeness of those who choose other patrons than Allah is as the likeness of the spider when she taketh unto herself a house, and lo! the frailest of all houses is the spider's house, if they but knew."
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published date: 1982
Size: 6 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 1.35 pounds
Publisher's Notes
Dramatizes the way that the French rulers of Morocco and their successors, the Nationalists, succeeded in ending the medieval traditions in the daily life of towns life Fez.
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The Spider's House
410. 5.68. Good. ( more information) Offered by Browsers Bookstore (United States)
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The Spider's House
Bowles, Paul
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press. 1982. Hardcover, no dustjacket as issued. 8vo. Reprint; originally published by Random House in 1955. Red boards with geometric design and lettering in teal, orange and red on front board. Book is in VG condition; from front endpaper to page 4, and from page 246 to the end, bottom edges are water-stained. Otherwise a clean copy; crisp and tight. With a new preface by Bowles. 406 pp. ISBN 0-876-85546-X ( more information) Offered by Warwick Books (United States)
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The Spider's House
Bowles, Paul
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. Light edgewear and nicks to boards; decorative front board. Quarter-bound in red buckram with paper title label pasted to spine. Thick mylar wrapper lightly scuffed.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. ( more information) Offered by Turn-The-Page Books (United States)
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The Spider's House
BOWLES, Paul
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982 Near fine - a neat, bright copy from the limited edition of 1000. Octavo on publisher's illustrated ochre boards quarter bound in red cloth, 406 pages. Light scuffs to acetate wrap, lightest touch of spotting to the edges. Bowles' fifth novel - set in Moroco in the medieval city of Fez during the 1954 nationalist uprising. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. ( more information) Offered by Sad Paradise Books (Australia)
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The Spider's House
Bowles, Paul
Santa Barbara Black Sparrow Press 1982 Hardcover Limited Edition F Octavo. Bright orange boards (front board illustrated) quarterbound in bright red cloth spine with orange paper pastedown. This volume is one of only 1000 copies produced. Black endpapers. 406 pages. Issued in a clear mylar dust jacket. Miller A7d. ( more information) Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
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THE SPIDER'S HOUSE
Bowles, Paul
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1982. First Black Sparrow edition. Originally published by Random House in 1955. Signed by Bowles on a tipped in page as issued. Preface by Bowles for this edition. Decorated paper covered boards, spine label, mylar dustjacket as issued. Two short stray ink lines on the top edge and a tiny closed tear on one page at foreedge; otherwise, an unread copy in Near Fine condition. The image is of the actual book described and not a stock photo. ( more information) Offered by Revere Books, ABAA (United States)
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