From the rear cover
The only novel by avant-garde literary star Jane Bowles, the highly influential wife of legendary writer Paul Bowles, Two Serious Ladies is a modernist cult classic, mysterious, profound, anarchic, and funny, that follows two "respectable" women as they descend into debauchery--updated with an introduction by Claire Messud, bestselling author of The Emperor's Children and The Woman Upstairs.
Christina Goering, eccentric and adventurous, and Frieda Copperfield, anxious but enterprising, are two serious ladies who want to live outside of themselves. Old friends, each will take a surprising path in search of salvation: during a visit to Panama, Mrs. Copperfield abandons her husband, finding solace in a relationship with a teenage prostitute; while Miss Goering, a wealthy spinster, pursues sainthood via sordid encounters with the basest of men. At the end the two women meet again, each radically altered by her experience.
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- Title Two Serious Ladies
- Author Jane Bowles
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco Press, New York
- Date 2014-02-25
- ISBN 9780062283122 / 006228312X
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.78 x 0.57 in (20.37 x 14.68 x 1.45 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Women, Life change events
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012286503
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Entertainment Weekly, 03/07/2014, Page 71
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