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Paul Bowles: A Life
by Virginia SpencerCarr.
Peter Owen, 431 pp., £19.95, July 2005,0 7206 1254 3 Show More
by Virginia SpencerCarr.
Peter Owen, 431 pp., £19.95, July 2005,
“... His father, whom he seemed to despise, was a dentist. He studied briefly at the University of Virginia. He began as a poet and composer, coming under the influence of both Gertrude Stein and Aaron Copland. In 1931, with Copland, he visited Morocco for the first time. He wrote a great number of scores for films and plays as well as classical ... ”