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Contents
A Few Words Before
Chapter One: The Early Childhood of Paul Bowles (1910-1918)
Chapter Two: Bowles's Move to a New Neighborhood and His Discovery of the Arts (1917-1927)
Chapter Three: Paul Bowles, a Runaway to Paris (1928-1931)
Chapter Four: Bowles's Return to Europe (1931-1933)
Chapter Five: A Lovesick Bowles in Algeria. Disillusionment, Estrangement, and Success in New York (1933-1936)
Chapter Six: Paul Bowles Meets Jane Auer. They Fall in Love and Marry (1937-1940)
Chapter Seven: Paul and Jane in Acapulco, Where They Meet Tennessee Williams (1940-1943)
Chapter Eight: Writing Music Reviews, Music for Broadway, Fiction, and Translations (1943-1947)
Chapter Nine: Bowles's Departure for Morocco and Return to New York to Compose Music for A Streetcar Named Desire and Summer and Smoke (1947-1948)
Chapter Ten: Bowles Returns to the Desert with Jane, and They Renew Their Dedication to Writing (1949-1951)
Chapter Eleven: Mishaps, Chance, Intervention of Fate, and Jane's Elusive Third Act of In the Summer House (1952-1954)
Chapter Twelve: Burroughs in Tangier and Bowles's Several Visits to His Island Off Ceylon (1954-1959)
Chapter Thirteen: Bowles Records Indigenous Music, Translates, and Survives As Best He Can (1959-1966)
Chapter Fourteen: Six Years of Abject Sadness (1967-1973)
Chapter Fifteen: Without Jane (1973-1999)
Chapter Sixteen: Coda
Additional Acknowledgments
Chronology
Notes
Index