Word: bowleses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paul Bowles' first attempt at a novel suffers from one salient fault--the author tries too hard. Attempting to depict man's flight into moral chaos and nihilism, Mr. Bowles utilizes a plot too weird to convince and a technique too realistic to carry the reader to the symbolic level...
From this simple arrangement Mr. Bowles seeks to establish the lack of moral and social authors which permits the tides of life to push us all about one way or another. But the lurid quality of Kit's refuge in the "friendly carnal presence" of the nearest male makes the...
Actually Mr. Bowles does achieve some very fine mood creation in his descriptions of travels through the deserts from one squalid town to the next. Only when he allows his characters to become reflective does he ruin this mood.
Mr. Bowles has dropped several John O'Hara characters into a Prokosch setting and used them to establish the fact that the human race is going into a moral Sahara fast. It is difficult to picture these people going any other way, but at the same time it is unfair...
Author Clare Barnes Jr., art director for the big Manhattan advertising agency of Benton & Bowles, got his idea while looking through a batch of animal photographs for an ad campaign last summer. In his search he was repeatedly reminded of folks around the office. Once he got the Zoo idea...