Two Serious Ladies - by Jane Bowles (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><P>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 Claire Messud, bestselling author of The Emperor's Children and The Woman Upstairs.<P>Two serious ladies who want to live outside of themselves, Christina Goering and Frieda Copperfield embark on separate quests of salvation. Mrs. Copperfield visits Panama with her husband, where she finds solace among the women who live and work in its brothels. Miss Goering becomes involved with various men. At the end the two women meet again, each transformed by her experience.<P>"<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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 Claire Messud, bestselling author of <em>The Emperor's Children</em> and <em>The Woman Upstairs.</em></p><p>Two serious ladies who want to live outside of themselves, Christina Goering and Frieda Copperfield embark on separate quests of salvation. Mrs. Copperfield visits Panama with her husband, where she finds solace among the women who live and work in its brothels. Miss Goering becomes involved with various men. At the end the two women meet again, each transformed by her experience.</p><p></p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>The only novel by avant-garde literary star Jane Bowles, the highly influential wife of legendary writer Paul Bowles, <em>Two Serious Ladies</em> is a modernist cult classic, mysterious, profound, anarchic, and funny, that follows two respectable women as they descend into debauchery--updated with an introduction by Claire Messud, bestselling author of <em>The Emperor's Children</em> and <em>The Woman Upstairs</em>.</p><p>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.</p>
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