The Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles (also rec’d by Gwyneth Paltrow , Jonathan Franzen & William S. Burroughs )
Buy on AmazonEvery time I read this book I love it more. Terrible things happen to its characters, three young Americans traveling through Morocco, but Bowles’s writing is so hypnotic that the calamities are seen through a certain anodyne haze. And despite its darkness, it’s the most humane of existential novels.
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"Every time I read this book I love it more. Terrible things happen to its characters, three young Americans traveling through Morocco, but Bowles’s writing is so hypnotic that the calamities are seen through a certain anodyne haze. And despite its darkness, it’s the most humane of existential novels."
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