Two Serious Ladies - Couverture souple

Bowles, Jane

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1250376564 ISBN 13 : 9781250376565

Editeur : Picador, 2025

Synopsis

Jane Bowles's avant-garde study of women breaking free from the bonds of convention is itself a master class in liberation from the constraints of everyday thinking, form, and feeling.

Two Serious Ladies is the only novel ever written by the legendary and underappreciated Jane Bowles. Long held as a visionary cult classic, this subversive, anarchic, and riotous novel follows two upper-class women as they strip themselves of propriety and descend into debauchery--and it now appears with a new introduction by Sheila Heti.

Christina Goering and Frieda Copperfield each embark on their own voyage of discovery and emancipation. Mrs. Copperfield visits Panama with her husband, but finds herself descending into a shadowy and seedy demimonde of brothels and bars, while Miss Goering engages in increasingly sordid encounters with strange men. At the end, the two women meet again, each transformed by her experience--and the reader transformed by the devastating wit and strange clarity with which Bowles writes of society and women's place in it.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jane Bowles has long had an underground reputation as one of the truly original writers of this century. Born in New York City in 1917, she lived in Tangier, Morocco, with her husband, Paul Bowles, from 1952 until her death in 1973.

Sheila Heti is the author of eleven books, including the novels Pure Colour, Motherhood, and How Should a Person Be?, which New York deemed one of the "New Classics" of the twenty-first century. She was named one of the "New Vanguard" by the New York Times book critics, who, along with a dozen other magazines and newspapers, chose Motherhood as a top book of 2018. Her books have been translated into twenty-four languages. She lives in Toronto.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1250376564
• ISBN 13: 9781250376565
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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