{"product_id":"a-hundred-camels-in-the-courtyard-paperback","title":"A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Bowles\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThese are four tales of contemporary life in a land where cannabis, rather than alcohol, customarily provides a way out of the phenomenological world. \u003c\/b\u003eThus, of the men in these stories, Salam uses suggestions supplied by smoking kif to rid himself of a possible enemy. He of the Assembly catches himself up in the mesh of his own kif-dream and begins to act it out in reality; Idir's victory over Lahcen is the classical story of the kif-smoker's ability to outwit the drinker. Driss the soldier, with aid of kif, proves the existence of magic to his enlightened superior officer. For all of them the kif-pipe is the means to attaining a state of communication not only with others but above all with themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis work is art. At his best Paul Bowles has no peer. --\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[W]riters and artists such as Williams, Jack Kerouac, Francis Bacon, Christopher Isherwood, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg to Tangier. . .sought Bowles as an oracle, a writer whose work demonstrated its author as an original who saw farther, deeper, and clearer, and who refused to flinch.--\u003ci\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Bowles (1910-1999) was an expatriate composer, author, and translator. His other famous literary works include \u003ci\u003eThe Sheltering Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTravels: Collected Writings 1950-1993\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWithout Stopping\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 90\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7.98 x 5.51 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758122664224,"sku":"9780872860025","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2e75d5112c51c5f2e22b97429a300951.webp?v=1780118588","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-hundred-camels-in-the-courtyard-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}