![]() She puts up with all his nonsense while she fends off advances from his male friend and traveling companion who is in love with her. He drunkenly demands tea, flashing his money, when his Arab host has told him the women are asleep. ![]() His wife knows that he wanders off at night to go to prostitutes. Generally he’s an Ugly American par excellence. (view spoiler) He is so obsessed with immersing himself in the travel experience that one night he slides down a hillside used as the local dump and sits there taking in the sights and smells of the garbage and filth. The first half of the book focuses on the husband the second half on the wife. A 30-ish American married couple and a male friend are traveling in the French colonies right after the end of World War II at a time when the US State Department advised people NOT to travel there because of rampant disease and the disintegration of social conditions and of law and order. “On the Road” in North Africa, published eight years before Kerouac’s classic. ![]()
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