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| Original Title: | The Sheltering Sky |
| ISBN: | 0141023422 (ISBN13: 9780141023427) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Port Moresbury,, Kit Moresbury |
| Setting: | Algeria |
Paul Bowles
Paperback | Pages: 342 pages Rating: 3.91 | 23706 Users | 1655 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Sheltering Sky |
| Author | : | Paul Bowles |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Penguin Red Classics |
| Pages | : | Pages: 342 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 2007 by Penguin Books (first published 1949) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Cultural. Africa. Travel. Literature. Novels. Northern Africa. Morocco |
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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.Rating Appertaining To Books The Sheltering Sky
Ratings: 3.91 From 23706 Users | 1655 ReviewsAssess Appertaining To Books The Sheltering Sky
Oh man oh man. Someday I will have to revisit this, as I seem to mention it to anyone or anything who is willing to listen. Has probably become my favorite book of all time: simultaneously capturing the utter loneliness of existence, and the strange beauty of the desert/and/or the foreign. Makes me want to travel, makes me want to stay home and hide under the covers...it's that good. I've read almost all of Bowles' other stuff, and some of it comes close to this (especially Let it Come Down),A novel of alienation and existential despair written just after the Second World War. I think I was supposed to like this: I didnt.It is essentially about three Americans wandering around North Africa and the Sahara just after the war. Kit and Port Moresby are the centre of the book, a married couple travelling; their friend Tunner is with them for part of the journey. Bowles is very caught up with the difference between a tourist and a traveller, he spent his later life living in North Africa:
i was all WOW! or maybe i was all WOWZY WOW WOW after i finished it. this quote will kill you. ""Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, five times more, perhaps not
The One Book I Can Truly Say Made Me Feel as if I was Hypnotized*How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind [it] is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.I was absolutely hypnotized by Paul Bowles' The Sheltering Sky, a lush and lyrical novel following a married couple and their male friend (they're "travelers," they say, not "tourists") as they wonder aimlessly through the desolation and harshness of the cities and deserts of North Africa shortly after WW II.Within the novel is
When books come recommended to us by people whose taste we highly respect, even before we read the very first word, they already take a life of their own molded by our expectations. At times, we're lucky and the book does meet and even surpasses what we expected from it, and at times such as now, it is a disappointment.This story follows three American travellers trotting around North Africa at a period after the Second World War. This book was written (and is also set) before decolonization
This is an ambitious novel about alienation, isolation and despair. The story revolves around the character of Port Moresby, who, in disillusioned response to WWII, rejects America and Europe, leaving NY for Africa with his wife Kit as well as an acquaintance named Tunner, whom they both dislike.Port feels Africa is less marred by war, and aims to spend a long period of time there. Its not that he would fit in, he just wants to escape, or disappear. He may hope to flee his emptiness, but
This 1949 novel is considered by the literati as classic literature that reflects "post-colonial alienation and existential despair." (Quote is from Wikipedia.) Apparently I don't like "existential despair" because I didn't enjoy reading this book. I will grant that the writing is good. It occurred to me while listening to the audio edition that many portions of the narrative could be presented as free verse at a modern day poetry slam and it could be passed off as good poetry. But the story
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