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基本信息·出版社：Penguin Books Ltd; New Ed edition
·页码：272 页
·出版日期：2004年01月
·ISBN：0141187778
·条形码：9780141187778
·装帧：平装
·丛书名：Penguin Modern Classics
·外文书名：遮蔽的天空
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When The Sheltering Sky was first published in 1949, it established Paul Bowles as one of the most singular and promising writers of the postwar generation. Its startlingly original vision has withstood the test of time and confirmed Tennessee Williams's early estimation: "The Sheltering Sky alone of the books that I have . . . read by American authors appears to bear the spiritual imprint of recent history in the western world." In this classic work of psychological terror, Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them.
The story of three worldly young travelers Port Moresby, his wife, Kit, and their friend, Tunner--adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II, The Sheltering Sky is merciless in its evocation of the emotional dislocation induced by a foreign setting. As the Americans embark on an ill-fated journey through desolate terrain, they are pushed to the limits of human reason and intelligence by the unfathomable emptiness and impassive cruelty of the desert. Along the way, they encounter a host of enigmatic characters whose inarticulate strangeness seals the travelers off even more completely from the culture in which they are traveling, causing their fierce attachments to one another to unravel.
This special fiftieth anniversary commemorative edition of Bowles's unforgettable first novel includes the original New York Times review by Tennessee Williams and a preface the author wrote for his first novel before he died in 1999.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 作者简介 Paul Bowles was born in 1910 and studied music with composer Aaron Copland before moving toTangier, Morocco, with his wife, Jane. He remained in Morocco, and- it served as the inspiration for
The Sheltering Sky, which waspublished in 1949. It was followed by The
Delicate Prey, Let It Come Down, The Spider'sHouse and
Without Stopping, a memoir thatdescribes his legendary associations with members of the Beat Generation. Bowles's prolific career included many musical compositions, collections of short fiction, and books of traveland poetry and translations.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 媒体推荐 书评
Amazon.com American novelist and short-story writer, poet, translator, classical music composer, and filmscorer Paul Bowles has lived as an expatriate for more than 40 years in the North African nation of Morocco, a country that reaches into the vast and inhospitable Sahara Desert. The desert is itself a character in
The Sheltering Sky, the most famous of Bowles'' 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.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. --The New Republic "It stands head and shoulders above most other novels published in English since World War II."
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. --Tobias Wolff "
[The Sheltering Sky] is one of the most original, even visionary, works of fiction to appear in this century."
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
