![]() ![]() Especially for homosexuals at that time, a family in the suburbs, even openness about identity, was not even a dream. Then the artistic set felt alienated from the mass movement in the U. My guess is that timing of the novel's appearance was also important. In what way does the sky shelter? Particularly in the desert, the big sky alerts a person to the impermanence of national borders. The question I have is: Why has this been such a highly acclaimed novel? For one thing it has a mysterious, evocative title. Later, what actually drives the plot is more passive: sickness and death. For the first part of the novel the characters threaten to take off on an adventure at any moment. The goal of the husband seems to be as useless as humanly possible, while his strangely subservient wife tags along, worrying away in her own hotel room. In The Sheltering Sky a post world war II couple sets off for the Sahara desert with loads of luggage and a pair of alligator pumps. ![]()
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