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Sinopsis
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.
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Críticas
"It stands head and shoulders above most other novels published in English since World War II."--"The New Republic""[The Sheltering Sky] is one of the most original, even visionary, works of fiction to appear in this century."--Tobias Wolff
Reseña del editor
A new edition the influential novel first published in 1949 follows three Americans as they endure the dangers of the North African desert, losing their smug superiority in the face of a strange and difficult world and their encounters with the limits of human existence and a people utterly alien to them. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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The Sheltering Sky (P.S.)
Librería: Dream Books Co., Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
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The Sheltering Sky
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ISBN 10: 006083482X
ISBN 13: 9780060834821
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Paperback. Condición: Fair. Set in the aftermath of WI and infused post-war existential angst, The Sheltering Sky (1949) tells a story of three Americans whose lives come unraveled in the harsh and unforgiving desert of North Africa. The manuscript was initially rejected Doubleday, which claimed it was not a novel. And indeed the story and its characters look unconventional even today, more than fifty years after its original publication. While students may be attracted to the novel's exotic desert setting and intrigued by the daring lifestyle of its two protagonists, Port and Kit, they may also be baffled by The Sheltering Sky's larger meaning, if it may be said to have one. Within the novel itself, Kit and Port represent two poles of meaning, or the impulse to find or create meaning in their experience. For Kit, the world is suffused with significance, which reveals itself to her in signs and omens, and she tries to order her life according to her interpretation of these omens. For Port, the world has been drained of meaning. He sees the sky as sheltering, protecting them from what lies behind it, but when Kit asks him what does lie behind it, he replies: Nothing. Just darkness. For Port, there is no God in the sky and no revelation lurking beneath the surface of things. Readers of the book are thus given two examples of interpretive strategies: to find meaning in everything or in nothing. Nº de ref. del artículo: 00104763253
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ISBN 10: 006083482X
ISBN 13: 9780060834821
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Paperback. Condición: Fair. Set in the aftermath of WI and infused post-war existential angst, The Sheltering Sky (1949) tells a story of three Americans whose lives come unraveled in the harsh and unforgiving desert of North Africa. The manuscript was initially rejected Doubleday, which claimed it was not a novel. And indeed the story and its characters look unconventional even today, more than fifty years after its original publication. While students may be attracted to the novel's exotic desert setting and intrigued by the daring lifestyle of its two protagonists, Port and Kit, they may also be baffled by The Sheltering Sky's larger meaning, if it may be said to have one. Within the novel itself, Kit and Port represent two poles of meaning, or the impulse to find or create meaning in their experience. For Kit, the world is suffused with significance, which reveals itself to her in signs and omens, and she tries to order her life according to her interpretation of these omens. For Port, the world has been drained of meaning. He sees the sky as sheltering, protecting them from what lies behind it, but when Kit asks him what does lie behind it, he replies: Nothing. Just darkness. For Port, there is no God in the sky and no revelation lurking beneath the surface of things. Readers of the book are thus given two examples of interpretive strategies: to find meaning in everything or in nothing. Nº de ref. del artículo: CIN006083482XA
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