The sheltering sky

Title:

The sheltering sky

Author:

Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999, author.

Summary:

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.-- Amazon.com.

Edition:

65th anniversary edtion

First Ecco paperback edition.

Physical Description:

xix, 327 pages ; 21 cm

Genre:

Psychological fiction.

Romance fiction.

Subject Term:

Americans -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Morocco -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Ecco Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,

Publication Date:

2014

1977

ISBN:

9780062351487

Publication Information:

New York, NY : Ecco Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2014.

Call Number:

BOWLES

Holds: Copies:

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Item Barcode	Collection	Call Number	Status	Item Holds
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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.