Jane Bowles wrote very little: just one perfect novel, Two Serious Ladies, a play, In the Summer House, and the dozen or so stories collected in this volume. But it was enough to establish a reputation as one of the twentieth century's most original fiction writers. From the title story where an Ame
Everything Is Nice: Collected Stories, Sketches and Plays
β Scribed by Jane Bowles
- Publisher
- Sort Of Books
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 298 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Definitive edition of stories, with a biographical note and photos THIS NEW COLLECTION gathers together all of Jane Bowlesβs fictional work (except her novel, Two Serious Ladies). It includes all of her stories, her plays, the excised sections of Two Serious Ladies (which was originally Three Serious Ladies), fragments of two unfinished novels (Out in the World and Going to Massachussets), and other stories edited from her notebooks by Janeβs husband, Paul Bowles, and her biographer, Millicent Dillon. From the title story, Everything is Nice, where an American woman is led to a house in a Βblue moslem townβ by a veiled woman with porcupines in her basket, to Camp Cataract, a Colorado-based tour de force of middle-class claustrophobia and dread, these stories takes you into Jane Bowlesβs edgy and exhilarating, tragicomic world. And her play, In the Summer House, included here in full, is a revelation: Βthe most original, the oddest and funniest play...
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