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Synopsis
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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Born in New York in 1920, Paul Bowles is considered one of the most remarkable American authors of the twentieth century. He began his artistic career as a composer and travelled widely in Europe and North Africa, settling in Tangier with his novelist wife Jane in the 1940s. Bowles is often credited with being a literary inspiration to the Beat authors. He died in 1999.
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In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture--and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. The story of three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa, The Sheltering Sky is at once merciless and heartbreaking in its compassion. It etches the limits of human reason and intelligence--perhaps even the limits of human life --when they touch the unfathomable emptiness and impassive cruelty of the desert.
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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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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0141023422
- ISBN 13 9780141023427
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages352
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