The Sheltering Sky

"The Sheltering Sky is one of the most original, even visionary, works of fiction to appear in the twentieth century." -Tobias Wolff

"It stands head and shoulders above most other novels published in English since World War II." -New Republic

In this existential classic of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend other cultures-and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. The story of three American travelers adrift in the cities and dese...