5/11/2023 0 Comments The sheltering sky novel![]() ![]() Port believes he is a traveller and not a tourist but they seek out hotels and restaurants wherever they visit, no one place satisfies them for long enough. ![]() Port and Kit Moresby, an American couple whose marriage hangs by a lifeless, sexless thread travel across North Africa chasing a vision of adventure that doesn’t truly exist. The novel serves as the most bleak and telling warning of the notion of romantic travel. This desire of his to break free from the entrapment of modern society spurred him on to travel across the Algerian Sahara and those experiences inspired him to write with the clarity which makes this story so compelling. A novel quite unlike any I have read before dark, tragic and deeply evocative of an age of travel and adventure long since passed.īowles was a man who immersed himself in the land and culture of North Africa, he wrote the book in 1948 as he travelled across Morocco and Algeria fuelled by hashish and the discovery of new paths and escapes from his homeland America and Europe’s intelligentsia. In the list of great twentieth century debut novels The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles (1910-1999) must surely find its place amongst the very best. Review of Paul Bowles classic debut novel… ![]()
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