Original sentence: "  Bowles traveled alone into the Algerian Sahara to work on the novel." A belated first American edition by New Directions appeared the following month.Bowles commented: "I wrote in bed in hotels in the desert"  The Sheltering Sky - the title came from a song, "Down Among the Sheltering Palms", which Bowles had heard every summer as a child - was first published by John Lehmann in England in September 1949 after Doubleday rejected the manuscript.The plot follows three Americans, Port, his wife Kit and their friend, Tunner, as they journey through the desert of an unnamed North African country, (although the narrative mentions that Port "heard all three of the town's tongues: Arabic, Spanish and French" which places the novel location firmly into the city of Tangier, being the only coastal port city in North Africa that has "all three tongues",)  culminating in the death of one (Port) and the descent into madness of another (Kit)
Edited sentence: " Bowles traveled alone into the Algerian Sahara to work on the novel."A belated first American edition by New Directions appeared the following month.Bowles commented: "I wrote in bed in hotels in the desert" The Sheltering Sky - the title came from a song, "Down Among the Sheltering Palms", which Bowles had heard every summer as a child - was first published by John Lehmann in England in September 1949 after Doubleday rejected the manuscript.The plot follows three Americans, Port, his wife Kit and their friend, Tunner, as they journey through the desert of an unnamed North African country, (although the narrative mentions that Port "heard all three of the town's tongues: Arabic, Spanish and French" which places the novel location firmly into the city of Tangier, being the only coastal port city in North Africa that has "all three tongues",) culminating in the death of one (Port) and the descent into madness of another (Kit)