First trade paperback printing

 

Condition: Very good, light edge wear and corner creasing, price sticker on rear cover. Softcover.

 

Publishing Info: Vintage, New York, 1990

ISBN: 9780679729792

 

In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which people 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.

 

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