Between 1987 and 1989, Paul Bowles, at the suggestion of a friend, kept
a journal to record the daily events of his life. What emerges is not
only just a record of the meals, conversations, and health concerns of
the author of The Sheltering Sky but also a fascinating look at an
artist at work in a new medium. Characterized by a refreshing
informality, clear-sightedness, and passages of exquisite prose, these
pages record with equal fascination the behavior of an itinerant spider,
a brutal episode of violence in a Tangier marketplace, and the pageantry
and excess of Malcolm Forbes's seventieth birthday party. In Days, a
master observer of the foreign and obscure turns his attentions toward
his own daily existence, giving us a startlingly candid portrait of his
life in late twentieth-century Tangier.