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Paul Bowles: A Life
by Virginia Spencer Carr.
Peter Owen, 431 pp., £19.95, July 2005,0 7206 1254 3 Show More
by Virginia Spencer Carr.
Peter Owen, 431 pp., £19.95, July 2005,
“... A piece of ass is two bucks and the swimming is great in the summer.’ In the early 1960s, John Hopkins, a graduate of Princeton, kept diaries of his visits to Paul and Jane Bowles: ‘Their intimacy is more fraternal than sexual. They live in separate apartments, one above the other, and communicate by a squeaking mauve toy telephone.’ Jane fell in ... ”