Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : HarperAudio, 2024
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EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 09 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9780063136106 MWT17517552, 0063136104 17517552
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Saskia Maarleveld
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 after World War II, 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 dessert
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