The Sheltering Sky (Neglected Books of the Twentieth Century) (Flamingo modern classics)

by Paul Bowles

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Some journeys are best left unmade.

Kit and Port Moresby are Americans abroad. Struggling to save their marriage, they resolve to trade civilization for the wilderness of the Sahara. At first, the pair are seduced by the desert's beauty. But beneath the exquisite landscape lurk the dark undercurrents of an alien culture, and the relentless dangers of a hostile natural world.

And as they travel deeper, they might not only lose their way.

They could lose their lives...

  • ISBN10 0141023422
  • ISBN13 9780141023427
  • Publish Date 26 January 2006 (first published 31 July 1981)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 25 April 2013
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 352
  • Language English