http://cvillewords.com/2007/02/16/the-sheltering-sky-by-paul-bowles/ Reading and writing in the heart of Virginia Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:34:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://cvillewords.com/2007/02/16/the-sheltering-sky-by-paul-bowles/#comment-4647 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:16:24 +0000 http://cvillewords.wordpress.com/2007/02/16/the-sheltering-sky-by-paul-bowles/#comment-4647 [...] a link to the Google Books entry for The Sheltering Sky. I get quite a few hits on this blog for The Sheltering Sky — maybe it’s something people read in school? I don’t know. Anyway, I followed [...]

]]> http://cvillewords.com/2007/02/16/the-sheltering-sky-by-paul-bowles/#comment-317 Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:15:52 +0000 http://cvillewords.wordpress.com/2007/02/16/the-sheltering-sky-by-paul-bowles/#comment-317 I was mildly obsessed with Paul Bowles some years back. I read a biography that was written sometime in the 1980s and was fascinated. I did read “The Sheltering Sky” and I think at least one other novel of his. I have a thick book of his collected stories if you want to borrow it.

]]> http://cvillewords.com/2007/02/16/the-sheltering-sky-by-paul-bowles/#comment-316 Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:06:53 +0000 http://cvillewords.wordpress.com/2007/02/16/the-sheltering-sky-by-paul-bowles/#comment-316 “…[T]he traveler, belonging no more to one place than to the next” — this description seems to try to make a virtue of rootlessness. Paul’s answer to everything in the book is, We’ll just keep going. I think he and Kit both found the ultimate end of that kind of philosophy.

]]> http://cvillewords.com/2007/02/16/the-sheltering-sky-by-paul-bowles/#comment-315 Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:32:18 +0000 http://cvillewords.wordpress.com/2007/02/16/the-sheltering-sky-by-paul-bowles/#comment-315 It’s quite an uneasy book: I could hardly bear the Moresbys, but the story remains in my mind even years after finishing the book. Even though Port Moresby likes to think of himself as a traveller, as opposed to a tourist, he fails at being one in the end, don’t you agree? I didn’t make sense of the title, as for me there is no shelter in this book, even in the desert sky.

]]>