The Dream At The End Of The World: Paul Bowles And The Literary Y Renegades In Tangier (1991)

The Dream at the End of the World is a smartly written account of post-WWII expatriate Tangier revives an era you might have thought squeezed dry by the numerous books about William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jane Bowles, and Paul Bowles, a cult writer who reached a wider audience last year with the filming of his novel The Sheltering Sky. Green, a senior writer at People, evokes the artists and socialites who were drawn to Tangier in the '50s and '60s for its abundant drugs, seedy exoticism, and erotic attractions. Balancing in-crowd folklore with interviews, she expands her subject by including such inner circle satellites as painter Francis Bacon, author Alfred Chester, and heiress Barbara Hutton. A Moroccan movable feast with Bowles as its polestar, this is the first overview of the bohemian boomtown where, it was said, ''nothing is true, everything is permitted.'' A