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Bowles, Jane Auer, 1917-1973.
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Bowles, Jane Auer, 1917-1973.
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Short stories, American -- Women authors.
Short stories, American.
American drama -- Women authors
American drama -- 20th century.
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Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
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Bowles, Jane Auer, 1917-1973.
Bowles, Jane Auer, 1917-1973.
Bowles, Jane Auer, 1917-1973 -- Correspondence.
Short stories, American -- Women authors.
Short stories, American.
American drama -- Women authors
American drama -- 20th century.
Women novelists, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
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Collected writings : Two serious ladies, In the summer house, stories & other writings, letters / Jane Bowles ; Millicent Dillon, editor.
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Bowles, Jane Auer, 1917-1973.
Library Of America, 2017.
Call #:
813
.52
B787c
Subjects
Bowles, Jane Auer, 1917-1973.
Bowles, Jane Auer, 1917-1973 -- Correspondence.
Short stories, American -- Women authors.
Short stories, American.
American drama -- Women authors
American drama -- 20th century.
Women novelists, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Series
Library of America ; 288.
ISBN:
9781598535136 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Two serious ladies.
In the summer house.
Description:
xvi, 815 pages ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Contains a novel, a play, nine shorter works originally published from 1944-1966, twelve notebook excerpts, and 133 letters.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 769-806) and index.
Contents:
Two serious ladies -- In the summer house -- Stories and other writings: A Guatemalan idyll ; A day in the open ; Song of an old woman ; Two skies ; A quarreling pair ; Plain pleasures ; Camp Cataract ; A stick of green candy ; East side : North Africa -- Scenes and fragments: Se©łorita C©đrdoba ; Looking for Lane ; Laura and Sally ; Going to Massachusetts ; The children's party ; Andrew ; Emmy Moore's journal ; Friday ; "Curls and a quiet country face" ; Lila and Frank ; The iron table ; At the Jumping Bean -- Letters -- Appendix. Everything is nice -- Chronology.
Summary:
Though Jane Bowles published only one novel, one play, and a handful of stories, her genius for spare prose and vivid dialogue had an outsized influence on her contemporaries. Tennessee Williams called her "the most important writer of prose fiction in modern American letters"; for John Ashbery she was "one of the finest modern writers of fiction in any language." Now, on the occasion of her centenary, a collection of Bowles's incomparable fiction, along with an extensive selection of her frank, vivid, and funny letters. Two Serious Ladies (1943), based partly on her honeymoon in Mexico with her husband, the writer and composer Paul Bowles, follows two bourgeois American women in Panama as they jettison sexual and cultural norms in search of happiness: Christina Goering, a wealthy spinster who becomes a high-class prostitute; and newlywed Frieda Copperfield, who finds love and comfort in the arms of a young Panamanian girl. In The Summer House (1954), a play about two mothers, one selfish and ruthless, despising her dreamy daughter, the other gentle, dominated by her strong-minded daughter, was performed on Broadway in 1953 and reflects Bowles's complicated relationship with her own mother. The volume also includes five short stories, two song lyrics, a puppet play, and the nonfiction sketch "East Side: North Africa." (Paul Bowles's rewrite of "East Side: North Africa," published in 1966, under Jane's name, as the short story "Everything Is Nice," is also included as an appendix), as well as fragments from two abandoned novels, a section of Two Serious Ladies cut from an earlier draft, four abandoned stories, one unfinished play, and one autobiographical fragment. Rounding out the volume are 133 letters, including candid portraits of such friends and acquaintances as John Ashbery, William Burroughs, Ira Gershwin, Allen Ginsberg, Carson McCullers, Sylvia Plath, Paul Robeson, Susan Sontag, Gertrude Stein, Gore Vidal, Eudora Welty, and Tennessee Williams. The letters are introduced with headnotes by editor Millicent Dillon.
"Jane Bowles (born Jane Sydney Auer) was an American writer and playwright. Born into a Jewish family in New York City, she spent her childhood in Woodmere, New York, on Long Island. She developed tuberculous arthritis of the knee as a teenager, and her mother took her to Switzerland for treatment, where she attended boarding school. At this point in her life, she developed a passion for literature coupled with insecurities. As a teenager she returned to New York, where she gravitated to the intellectual bohemia of Greenwich Village. She married composer and writer Paul Bowles in 1938. The location of the honeymoon inspired the setting for her novel Two Serious Ladies."--From wikipedia.org website.
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