Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles

Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles

Two Serious Ladies is the only novel by avant-garde literary star and wife of legendary writer Paul Bowles--a modernist cult-classic, mysterious, profound, anarchic, and funny, that follows two upper-class women as they descend into debauchery--updated with an introduction by Claire Messud, bestselling author of The Emperor's Children and The Woman Upstairs.

Two serious ladies who want to live outside of themselves, Christina Goering and Frieda Copperfield embark on separate quests of salvation. Mrs. Copperfield visits Panama with her husband, where she finds solace among the women who live and work in its brothels. Miss Goering becomes involved with various men. At the end the two women meet again, each transformed by her experience.

Jane Bowles (1917-1973), author of a novel, Two Serious Ladies, a play, In the Summer House, and a volume of stories, Plain Pleasures, was born in New York City and in 1938 married writer Paul Bowles. She belonged to the New York artistic circles of the 1940s before moving with Paul to Paris and Tangier, where she knew Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, and Gertrude Stein, among others.

Millicent Dillon, editor, is the author or editor of four books on Paul and Jane Bowles, including A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles (1981) and Out in the World: Selected Letters of Jane Bowles (1985). She is also a novelist, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a five-time O'Henry Award winner. She lives in Palo Alto, California.

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ISBN 13	9780062283122
ISBN 10	006228312X
Title	Two Serious Ladies
Author	Jane Bowles
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2014-02-25
Number of pages	240
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