"Recounts incidents from Mrabet´s youth on the streets of Tangier. Starting with the author´s adventures as à poor Moroccan boy later taken to the USA by à besotted couple, this culminates in an account of Mrabet´s life in the household of Jane and Paul Bowles. With Paul, who is himself one of America´s most important contemporary writers, he meets such writers as Tennessee Williams and Christopher Isherwood. As well as being à talented artist, Mrabet has written à number of books with Bowles, which have been published in the U.K., the U.S., and elsewhere. Skill...candour...striking clarity...chilling directness."""