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The sheltering sky, Paul Bowles

Label
The sheltering sky, Paul Bowles
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The sheltering sky
Oclc number
3072285
Responsibility statement
Paul Bowles
Series statement
Neglected books of the twentieth century
Summary
A story about three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II, The theme of the book explores the limits of humanity when it touches the unfathomable emptiness and impassive cruelty of the desert and examines the ways in which Americans' incomprehension of alien cultures leads to the ultimate destruction of those cultures
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