The Sheltering Sky (P.S.) - Couverture souple

Bowles, Paul

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 006083482X ISBN 13 : 9780060834821

Editeur : Ecco, 2005

Synopsis

The Sheltering Sky is a landmark of twentieth-century literature. In this intensely fascinating story, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans' incomprehension of alien cultures leads to the ultimate destruction of those cultures.

A story about three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II, The Sheltering Sky explores the limits of humanity when it touches the unfathomable emptiness and impassive cruelty of the desert.

This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Paul Bowles was born in 1910 and studied music with Aaron Copland before moving to Tangier, Morocco. A devastatingly imaginative observer of the West's encounter with the East, he is the author of four highly acclaimed novels: The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, The Spider's House, and Up Above the World. In addition to being one of the most powerful postwar American novelists, Bowles was an acclaimed composer, a travel writer, a poet, a translator, and a short-story writer. He died in Morocco in 1999.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ecco
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 006083482X
• ISBN 13: 9780060834821
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 346
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible