Bowles, Jane Two Serious Ladies ISBN 13: 9780956003850

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Few great writers produced less than Jane Bowles: one novel, one play and a dozen short stories. Yet hers is one of the most original, unique voices in twentieth century American literature. A novelist with an essentially tragic view, as Truman Capote concludes in his memoir, but also 'a very funny writer ... with at [her] heart the subtlest comprehension of eccentricity and human apartness.'

Here, then, is a novel unlike any other. A tale of two extraordinary heroines - Christina Goering, a wealthy spinster in pursuit of sainthood, and Frieda Copperfield, who finds a home from home in a Panama brothel. And a book whose lesbian themes were startling on its original publication in 1943.

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Readers who've not yet read Jane Bowles are almost to be envied, like people who've still to read Austen or Mansfield or Woolf, and have all the delight, the literary satisfaction, the shock of classic originality, the revelation of such good writing, still to come.

(Ali Smith)
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A cult classic, beautifully reissued, with a foreword by Paul Bowles and memoir by Truman Capote

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  • PublisherSort of Books
  • Publication date2010
  • ISBN 10 0956003850
  • ISBN 13 9780956003850
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages256
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