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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.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Two Serious Ladies
• Author: Jane Bowles
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780956003850
• ISBN: 0956003850
• ID: 04180732
• Publisher: Sort of Books
• Weight: 316 g
• Dimensions: 199 × 132 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. June 2010

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