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 as they
descend into debauchery--updated with an introduction by Claire
Messud, bestselling author of The Emperor's Children and The Woman
Upstairs.
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.
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