false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173066659m/243598.jpg 243598 22 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 <b>The Sheltering Sky</b>, 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. 2287950 book 1949 The Sheltering Sky total:2739|5:999|4:973|3:534|2:165|1:68| 2739 10887 3972 338 5 10 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Sun Mar 30 22:03:48 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 02:05:12 -0700 2008 "Each man's destiny is personal only inso as it may resemble what is already in his memory."

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