The Dream at the End of the World

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BIOGRAPHY
"Green is a gifted writer and obviously relishes her task of dishing out the dirt on Tangier's 'alchemical blend of primitivism and sophistication.' The Dream at the End of the World makes for great reading."
— Michael Upchurch, San Francisco Chronicle
"Clear-eyed, intelligent and exceedingly readable."
— Constance Casey, Ihm Angelegt Time^f
In The Dream at the End of the World, her splendid account of palmy days in Tangier, the last great paradise of our century, Michelle Green presents a richly detailed portrait of one of the most extraordinary groups of individuals ever to have congregated in a single location. Writers and heiresses, drug addicts and pederasts, artists and con men —all were lured by a raffish city that promised a füll range of pleasures. At the center of the extravagant community were Paul and Jane Bowles, the most seductive couple of their age. For Paul, a critically acclaimed writer and composer, Morocco was a perfect setting for his perverse,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

BIOGRAPHY
"Green is a gifted writer and obviously relishes her task of dishing out the dirt on Tangier's 'alchemical blend of primitivism and sophistication.' The Dream at the End of the World makes for great reading."
— Michael Upchurch, San Francisco Chronicle
"Clear-eyed, intelligent and exceedingly readable."
— Constance Casey, Ihm Angelegt Time^f
In The Dream at the End of the World, her splendid account of palmy days in Tangier, the last great paradise of our century, Michelle Green presents a richly detailed portrait of one of the most extraordinary groups of individuals ever to have congregated in a single location. Writers and heiresses, drug addicts and pederasts, artists and con men —all were lured by a raffish city that promised a füll range of pleasures. At the center of the extravagant community were Paul and Jane Bowles, the most seductive couple of their age. For Paul, a critically acclaimed writer and composer, Morocco was a perfect setting for his perverse, visionary fiction; for Jane, a brilliant playwright plagued by anxiety and terrified of her own talent, it was as sinister as it was tantalizing.
Drawn into the Bowleses' orbit were iconoclasts like William Burroughs, who composed his hallucinatory Naked Lunch while living in a male brothel; Truman Capote; Allen Ginsberg; the flamboyant torch singer Libby Holman; and Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton, who staged legendary fetes at which camel drivers stood sentry while the hostess herself held court on a throne, wearing an emerald and diamond tiara that had once belonged to Catherine the Great.
If the haunting voices of the nuozzin^, thé headiness of klf, and the tension of a country in the grip of political turmoil proved a source of madness as often as inspiration, few chronicles have offered such an alchemical blend of primitivism and sophistication, and few chronicles have captured a period and a sensibility as memorably as The Dream at the End of the World. Vissza