The Sheltering Sky
(New York): New Directions, (1949).
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Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in just about fine dust jacket by Alvin Lustig, with a barely visible stain at the spine and top of the front panel. Housed in a custom quarter morocco gilt and cloth clamshell case. Advance Review Copy with publisher's printed review slip laid in. 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. A lovely copy.
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Paul Bowles
birth name: Paul Frederick Bowles
born: 12/30/1910
died: 11/18/1999
Biography
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