false 45398753 645397 760472 0679729798 9780679729792 35 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178126344m/760472.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178126344s/760472.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/760472.The_Sheltering_Sky 4.02 276 The Sheltering Sky, the most famous of Bowles's 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.]]> 7659 4.04 4733 549 1949 Good so far, basically the same as the movie but with all the characters' thoughts, which would have made the movie far more interesting & f 0 2009-02-04T16:35:08-08:00 347936 115 2009-02-04T16:35:08-08:00 0 0 false Wed Feb 04 16:34:09 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 16:35:18 -0800 2009