The Sheltering Sky - Softcover

Bowles, Paul

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141023422 ISBN 13: 9780141023427

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2006

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Some journeys are best left unmade.

Kit and Port Moresby are Americans abroad. Struggling to save their marriage, they resolve to trade civilization for the wilderness of the Sahara. At first, the pair are seduced by the desert's beauty. But beneath the exquisite landscape lurk the dark undercurrents of an alien culture, and the relentless dangers of a hostile natural world.

And as they travel deeper, they might not only lose their way.

They could lose their lives...

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"It stands head and shoulders above most other novels published in English since World War II."--"The New Republic""[The Sheltering Sky] is one of the most original, even visionary, works of fiction to appear in this century."--Tobias Wolff

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RED CLASSICS
Some journeys are best left unmade.
Kit and Port Moresby are Americans abroad. Struggling to save their marriage, they resolve to trade civilization for the wilderness of the Sahara. At first, the pair are seduced by the desert's beauty. But beneath the exquisite landscape lurk the dark undercurrents of an alien culture, and the relentless dangers of a hostile natural world.
And as they travel deeper, they might not only lose their way.
They could lose their lives ...
'One of the most unusual, unconventional and gifted men of his time' SUNDAY TIMES
'He let in the murder, the drugs, the incest...the call of the orgy, the end of civilization' NORMAN MAILER

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