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American novelist and short-story writer, poet, translator, classical music composer, and filmscorer Paul Bowles has lived as an expatriate for more than 40 years in the North African nation of Morocco, a country that reaches into the vast and inhospitable Sahara Desert. The desert is itself a character in The Sheltering Sky, the most famous of Bowles' books, which is about three young Americans of the postwar generation who go on a walkabout into Northern Africa's own arid heart of darkness. In the process, the veneer of their lives is peeled back under the author's psychological inquiry.
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--The New Republic
"It stands head and shoulders above most other novels published in English since World War II."
The Sheltering Sky
The Sheltering Sky,Paul Bowles,Harper Perennial,0880015829,Americans,Fiction,Fiction - General,General,Literary,Love stories,Morocco,Psychological fiction,Fiction / General
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