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A review by octopus_farmer
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
dark
reflective
slow-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.5
I have never read a book with a whole cast of characters I hated more and one that also took forever to go off the rails in a truly horrible way. The only satisfaction I had reading was a particular man getting slapped, a simulacrum of which can be easily found on Youtube without putting yourself through this book. I couldn’t content warn for a loss of sanity, which occurs in the third section.
Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism
Moderate: Child death, Infidelity, Rape, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Grief, and Colonisation
Minor: Death