WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CHRIS POWER'Readers who've not yet read Jane Bowles are almost to be envied,like people who've still to read Austen or Mansfield or Woolf'Ali Smith'The most important writer of prose fiction in modern American letters'Tennessee Williams'A modern legend'Truman Capote'Bowles is a master of the unforgettable phrase that no one else could have written'William S. Burroughs'A dizzyingly original stylist'New York Times"It's the truth," the women said from their mattress "Everything is nice". Alva,a widow,states a preference for plain ordinary pleasures - only to get drunk and flirtatious,and pass out in a strange bed when she is asked out for the evening.Sadie,a spinster,goes to a holiday resort complete with pine groves,marshmallows and respectable clientele - to bring her nervous sister home,but instead comes to an eerie end herself.Mary,a little girl,spends her days in a clay pit leading an imaginary army of hard-muscled men. But hen a strange boy invades her headquarters,Mary abandons her soldiers to follow him home.Disturbing,unforgettable,totally unique - Jane Bowles'short stories explore the hidden lives of women that only appear ordinary.A W&N Essential
Publisher: Orion Publishing CoISBN: 9781474620437Number of pages: 112Weight: 106 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 16 mm
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Readers who've not yet read Jane Bowles are almost to be envied,like people who've still to read Austen or Mansfield or Woolf,and have all the delight,the literary satisfaction,the shock of classic originality,the revelation of such good writing,still to come.One of the finest modern writers of fiction in any language.A thoroughly original mind - a mind at once profoundly witty,genuinely unusual in its apprehensions,and bracingly,humanely true.A modern legend...A very funny writer...with at (her) heart the subtlest comprehension of eccentricity and human apartness.
A dizzyingly original stylist
Bowles is a master of the unforgettable phrase that no one else could have written
The most important writer of prose fiction in modern American letters
Deserves to sit next to Mansfield,Rhys and Woolf
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