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Collected writings / Jane Bowles ; Millicent Dillon, editor.

Bowles, Jane, 1917-1973 (author.). Dillon, Millicent, (editor.). Bowles, Jane, 1917-1973 Two serious ladies. (Added Author). Bowles, Jane, 1917-1973 In the summer house. (Added Author).

Summary:

One novel, one play, nine shorter works originally published from 1944-1966, twelve notebook excerpts, and 133 letters from 1935-1970.

Two serious ladies: A modernist cult-classic, mysterious, profound, anarchic, and funny, and only novel by avant-garde literary star and wife of legendary writer Paul Bowles. Christina Goering and Frieda Copperfield, both upper-class women, embark on separate quests of salvation, ultimately descending into debauchery-- Miss Goering becomes involved with various men, and Mrs. Copperfield visits Panama with her husband, where she finds solace among the women who live and work in its brothels. At the end the two women meet again, each transformed by her experience."--Amazon.com.

In the summer house: The plot of this play is driven by character interactions, comparing two widows and their unstable daughters -- Gertrude Eastman Cuevas, an overbearing mother and her gentle daughter Molly, and Mrs. Constable, a gentle mother and her overbearing daughter Vivian. The second act occurs in a restaurant named The Lobster Bowl and uses intensive food imagery.

In the summer house: Bowles' only full-length play, was first performed in 1951 in the Hedgerow Theater in Moylan, Pennsylvania. The Broadway play opened at the Playhouse Theatre December 29, 1953 with music by Paul Bowles, her husband, where it ran for two months to mixed reviews and low attendance. Around 1963, the play was revived. The play was revived again in 1993 At the Vivian Beaumont Theater with incidental music by Philip Glass. A later Washington Shakespeare Company production featured music by Richard Reinfield.

Record details

ISBN: 9781598535136 (hardcover)
ISBN: 1598535137 (hardcover)
Physical Description: xvi, 815 pages ; 21 cm.
Publisher: [New York, N. Y.] : Library of America, [2017]

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Volume compilation, notes, and chronology copyright © 2017 by Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y."-- Title page verso. According to ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer website, Literary Classics of the United States Inc does business as The Library of America. [Accessed June 1, 2017].
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 769-806) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Two serious ladies (© 1943) -- In the summer house (© 1954) -- Stories and other writings: A Guatemalan idyll ; A day in the open ; Song of an old woman ; Two skies ; A quarreling pair ; Plain pleasures ; Camp Cataract ; A stick of green candy ; East side : North Africa -- Scenes and fragments: Señorita Córdoba ; Looking for Lane ; Laura and Sally ; Going to Massachusetts ; The children's party ; Andrew ; Emmy Moore's journal ; Friday ; "Curls and a quiet country face" ; Lila and Frank ; The iron table ; At the Jumping Bean -- Letters -- Appendix. Everything is nice -- Chronology -- Note on the texts.