About the Book

A landmark of twentieth-century literature. Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans' incomprehension of alien cultures leads to the ultimate destruction of those cultures.

A story about three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II, The Sheltering Sky explores the limits of humanity when it touches the unfathomable emptiness and impassive cruelty of the desert.

Product Details

• ISBN: 9780062351487
• ISBN 10: 0062351486
• Imprint: Ecco
• On Sale: 09/09/2014
• Pages: 352
• List Price:22.00 CAD
• BISAC1 : FICTION / Historical
• BISAC2 : FICTION / Classics
• BISAC3 : FICTION / Psychological

Paul Bowles

Biography

Paul Bowles was born in 1910 and studied music with composer Aaron Copland before moving to Tangier, Morocco. A devastatingly imaginative observer of the West's encounter with the East, he is the author of four highly acclaimed novels: The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, The Spider's House, and Up Above the World. In addition to being one of the most powerful postwar American novelists, Bowles was an acclaimed composer, a travel writer, a poet, a translator, and a short story writer. He died in Morocco in 1999.

Other Works by Paul Bowles

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  The Sheltering Sky

  By Paul Bowles

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  A Distant Episode

  By Paul Bowles

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  The Delicate Prey

  By Paul Bowles