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Let it come down

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Use in library	PS3552.O874 L47 1980	Off-site

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292 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Nelson Dyar leaves his tame bank job in New York to work in a friend's travel agency in Tangier, only to learn that the agency is a front for illegal currency exchange.
First published in 1952, Paul Bowles' novel Let It Come Down (the citation from Shakespeare's Macbeth) celebrates an era within the city of Tangier which, as Bowles notes in his Preface "Thirty Years Later", "has long ago ceased to exist. ... Like a photograph, the tale is a document relating to a specific place at a given moment in time, illuminated by the light of that particular moment". The final section of the novel, "Another Kind of Silence", was famously written in Xauen in the Rif mountains while under the influence of kif.

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"This edition is published in paper wrappers; there are 1000 cloth trade copies; 350 hardcover copies have been numbered and signed by the author; & 26 lettered copies have been handbound in boards by Earle Gray & are signed by the author."--Colophon.

Contents

International zone -- Fresh meat and roses -- The age of monsters -- Another king of silence.

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80024825

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Princeton University Library