The Sheltering Sky

(New York): New Directions, (1949).

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Hardcover. First American edition. Boards a bit soiled and worn, and small, faint tape shadows at the outer corners of the free endpapers, else about very good in a clean and bright very good dustwrapper with a small chip at the crown and a little wrinkled. Warmly and humorously Inscribed to a close friend: "Monsieur Daniel Wardin: It is my duty to inform you that you are formally accused by an American subject, Mme. Johnson B., of the theft of numerous household articles including bath towels, pillows and nightgowns. Unless restitution is promptly made, a procès-verbal will be served. Signed: Ali Tomsumany, Commissaire, Tanger. (best, Paul, Tangier, 7/I/90)." The inscription references a mutually disliked American woman whose apartment the recipient lived in, and which was directly below Bowles's own in Tangiers. The author's first and best known book, in which a disaffected American couple meet the harsh reality of the Moroccan desert, with less than happy results. Filmed by Bernardo Bertolucci with Debra Winger, John Malkovich, and the author in a small role. An amusing and whimsical inscription.

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Item #419593 The Sheltering Sky. Paul BOWLES.
The Sheltering Sky

Paul Bowles
birth name: Paul Frederick Bowles
born: 12/30/1910
died: 11/18/1999

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American-born composer, translator, and author of novels and short stories in which violent events and psychological collapse are recounted in a detached and elegant style. His protagonists are often Europeans or Americans who are maimed by their contact with powerful traditional cultures. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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