Book description
  Readers who've not yet read Jane Bowles are almost to be
envied, like people who've still to read Mansfield or Woolf, and have
all the delight, the shock of classic originality, the revelation of
such good writing, still to come.' Ali Smith Eccentric, impulsive New
York heiress, Christina Goering meets the anxious but equally
unpredictable Mrs Copper- field at a party. Two serious ladies, for
whom nothing is natural and anything is possible, they follow their
singu- lar paths in search of salvation. Mrs Copperfield visits Panama
with her husband, whom she abandons for love of Pacifica, a local
prositute, and her brothel home. Miss Goering, for her part, seeks
redemption by swapping her mansion for a squalid little house and
relishing ever more extreme encounters with strangers. At the end, the
two women meet again. First published in 1943, Two Serious Ladies is a
true one-off Â- daring and original, with deadpan humour and
devastating insights. It was Jane Bowles's masterpiece.
