Two Serious Ladies (Peter Owen Modern Classic) (W&N Essentials)

by Jane Bowles

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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.
  • ISBN10 0956003850
  • ISBN13 9780956003850
  • Publish Date 24 June 2010 (first published January 1965)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 11 March 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Sort of Books
  • Edition Main
  • Format Paperback (UK Trade)
  • Pages 256
  • Language English