The Sheltering Sky
Expatriate dislocation, a failing marriage, and disaster without moral meaning.
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The Delicate Prey and Other Stories
by Paul Bowles
Bowles compresses alien landscapes, cultural misunderstanding, and sudden violence into seventeen stories.
- 1950
The story, briefly
Spoiler-freeThis 1950 collection gathers Bowles’s controlled, unsettling stories of travelers and outsiders encountering danger in North Africa and beyond.
Why we recommend it
Bowles’s dread in concentrated form
The stories use the same calm precision and emotional distance that make The Sheltering Sky so disturbing.
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- 9780880012638
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