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Two Serious Ladies is the only novel by avant-garde literary star and wife of legendary writer Paul Bowles--a modernist cult-classic, mysterious, profound, anarchic, and funny, that follows two upper-class women as they descend into debauchery--updated with an introduction by... Read Full Overview

2020 Reprint of the 1943 Edition. The only novel by avant-garde literary star Jane Bowles, the highly influential wife of legendary writer Paul Bowles, Two Serious Ladies is a modernist cult classic, mysterious, profound, anarchic, and funny, that follows two respectable women... Read Full Overview

Eccentric, adventurous Christina Goering meets the anxious but equally enterprising Mrs. Copperfield at a party. Two serious ladies who want to live outside of themselves, they go in search of Mrs. Copperfield who visits Panama with her husband, where she finds solace among the... Read Full Overview

Two Serious Ladies is the only novel ever written by the legendary and underappreciated modernist Jane Bowles. Long held as a visionary cult classic, this subversive, anarchic, and riotous novel follows two upper-class women as they strip off their propriety and descend... Read Full Overview

"Two Serious Ladies is a singular achievement - a modernist cult classic." - The Guardian

"The most important writer of prose fiction in modern American letters" - Tennessee Williams

Inspired by the author's honeymoon in Mexico with her husband,... Read Full Overview

Two Serious Ladies is the only novel ever written by the legendary and underappreciated modernist Jane Bowles. Long held as a visionary cult classic, this subversive, anarchic, and riotous novel follows two upper-class women as they strip off their propriety and descend... Read Full Overview