Jane Bowles
Description
Jane Bowles (Jane Sydney Auer; February 22, 1917 – May 4, 1973) was an American writer and playwright. Jane Bowles published Two Serious Ladies, her only novel, at the age of twenty-six and later wrote a book of short stories, Plain Pleasures, and a play, In the Summer House. In 1957 she suffered a cerebral hemorrhage that practically prevented her from reading and writing again; she died in Malaga in 1973.
Books
Out in the World
This volume contains a series of letters written by the American writer Jane Bowles, between 1935 and 1970, addressed mainly to her husband Paul Bowles and her friend Libby Holman.
Plain Pleasures, Other Stories and From the Notebooks
Most of these short stories are tragi-comedies, concentrating on how bizarre occurences can arise from everyday situations and vice versa. Bowles had previously written Two Serious Ladies and a play, In the Summerhouse.
Collected writings
One novel, one play, nine shorter works originally published from 1944-1966, twelve notebook excerpts, and 133 letters.
Two Serious Ladies
"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"--Provided by publisher.