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The short fiction of National literary cult figure Paul Bowles is designated by a distinctive, gently extra design, and a dark, rich, amazing feeling, by turns chilling, interesting, and wry—possessing a balance between horror and beauty that's haunting and fundamentally ethical. In "Pastor Dowe at TecatÉ," a Protestant missionary is delivered to a faraway place where his Lord doesn't have energy. In "Phone at CorazÓn," an American spouse abandons his alcoholic wife on the honeymoon in a South American rainforest. In "Allal," a childis medication-induced transformation right into a dangerous snake results in his violent demise.