Love with a Few Hairs
Mrabet, Mohammed and Paul Bowles (Trans.). City Lights Books, 1992. Softbound. Mrabet's first book, dictated while working as a servant for Paul and Jane Bowles (he reported picking up Paul's feces with bare hands and witnessing Jane's bewitching by the notorious Cherifa), rebuffing the advances of Allen Ginsberg ('those terrible Beat writers', Mrabet once called the hedonistic milieu who courted him), and producing felt-tip and ink drawings collected by Henry Miller and Mick Jagger (according to Simon-Pierre Hamlin, he 'watched the Rolling Stones crawl around on Paul Bowles’ floor, drugged out of their minds').
Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some gentle edge-wear, lightly bumped corners, and a few subtle creases to the front matter. 198 pp. Fiction.