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October, 2014 paul bowles had already established himself as an important composer when at age 39 he published the sheltering sky and became recognized as one of the most powerful writers of the postwar period. Port and kit moresbury, a sophisticated american couple, are finding it more than a little difficult to live with each other. The sheltering sky, by john bowles, focuses on a couple in the postwar era of the 20th century thats trying to find a way to come together again. Whereas a tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another. The difference is partly one of time, he would explain.
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