![]() And it is a book with some memorable quotes. Paul Bowles’ The Sheltering Sky is one of those books that gets quoted often, and referred to oftener by its admirers. It’s in that spirit that I added the book which is the subject of this essay to the 2014 reading list. Such, such is the nature of a certain kind of literary OCD. You know what I mean: we look over one or another of those lists of “greatest books” or “books everyone with a functioning brain should read” and note a work that makes us say, “How have I overlooked that book?” If you’re like me (and I hope your neuroses don’t extend, as mine do, to thinking you should have read every writer mentioned in, say, The Norton Anthology series), you then find yourself scrambling to address your perceived gaps in your literary education. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles (image courtesy Wikimedia)Īnyone who has devoted him/herself to reading and writing whether as vocation (as I and some others have) or as avocation (as many more others have) occasionally has those times of reflection when we look back over our pursuits and spot occasional gaps in our literary educations. ![]()
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