Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. A lot of the books i like are slim and dense, with sentences that, if you try to skip through them, will stall and stop you until theyve exacted your patient, uninterrupted attention. Two serious ladies by jane bowles fantastic fiction. A lot of the books i like are slim and dense, with sentences that.
Jane bowless literary output, small but perfect, puts her on a stylistic planet. This is a very strange book about two strange women and their oddball adventures. It follows two upperclass women, christina goering and frieda copperfield. Nathaniel rich on her novel of two women going to pieces. I didnt know anything about the book, but i liked the idea of a january. Eccentric, adventurous christina goering meets the anxious but. Two serious ladies 1943 by jane bowles word by word. And a book whose lesbian themes were startling on its original publication in 1943.
As two serious ladies opens, we meet cristina goering. It is a great loss to literature that due to illness, both physical and psychological, that two serious ladies represents the only fulllength work produced by jane bowles. First published in 1943, two serious ladies is a true oneoff daring and original, with deadpan humour and devastating insights. She was born in new york city and in 1938 married the writer paul bowles when she met bowles, she told a friend, hes my enemy. Two serious ladies is a 1943 modernist novel by the american writer jane bowles. Jane bowles, a daring and stylish modernist, was the author of a novel, two serious ladies, a play, in the summer house, and a volume of stories, plain pleasures.
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