In Touch is an extraordinary collection of correspondence spanning
eight decades from the bestselling author of The Sheltering Sky.
Selected by Bowles's bibliographer from more than 7,000 letters, In
Touch provides an evolving portrait of an artist renowned for his
privacy. Yet Bowles was an indefatigable correspondent, and his
letters offer a rare look at the many aspects of his brilliant
career - as composer, novelist, short-story master, travel writer,
translator, ethnographer, and literary critic. From his earliest
extant letter, written at the age of four, to his precocious
effusions to Aaron Copland and to Gertrude Stein; from his
meditations on mescaline as relayed to Ned Rorem, to his intensely
moving letters to Jane Bowles during her illness. In Touch fills in
the lacunae left by previous biographers and by Bowles's own memoir
and journal. Here is Bowles on the genesis of his first novel, The
Sheltering Sky; on his distaste for Western melodies and his dogged
attempts to record indigenous Moroccan music; on the Beats, Gore
Vidal, Truman Capote, and Tennessee Williams; on the nature and
craft of writing; on Bernardo Bertolucci, David Byrne, and Sting;
on the decline of America and the challenges of living in North
Africa. Gossipy, reflective, enlightening, and always entertaining,
In Touch stands as an epistolary autobiography of one of the
legendary writers of our time, and a unique chronicle of the
twentieth-century avant-garde.
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