Two Serious Ladies

• Date de parution : 24/06/2010
• Editeur : Sort Of Books Digital
• EAN : 9781908745255
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• Support : Livre numérique

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''Readers who';ve not yet read Jane Bowles are almost to be envied, like people who';ve still to read Mansfield or Woolf, and have all the delight, the shock of classic originality, the revelation of such good writing, still to come.'; Ali Smith Eccentric, impulsive New York heiress, Christina... Voir plus

''Readers who';ve not yet read Jane Bowles are almost to be envied, like people who';ve still to read Mansfield or Woolf, and have all the delight, the shock of classic originality, the revelation of such good writing, still to come.'; Ali Smith Eccentric, impulsive New York heiress, Christina Goering meets the anxious but equally unpredictable Mrs Copper- field at a party. Two serious ladies, for whom nothing is natural and anything is possible, they follow their singu- lar paths in search of salvation. Mrs Copperfield visits Panama with her husband, whom she abandons for love of Pacifica, a local prositute, and her brothel home. Miss Goering, for her part, seeks redemption by swapping her mansion for a squalid little house and relishing ever more extreme encounters with strangers. At the end, the two women meet again. First published in 1943, Two Serious Ladies is a true one-off - daring and original, with deadpan humour and devastating insights. It was Jane Bowles';s masterpiece.