false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172517630m/183332.jpg 183332 5 <div>Though she wrote only one novella, one short play, and fewer than a dozen short stories over a roughly twenty-year span from the early 1940s to the mid-1960s, Jane Bowles has long been regarded by critics as one of the premier stylists of her generation. Enlivened at unexpected moments by sexual exploration, mysticism, and flashes of wit alternately dry and hilarious, her prose is spare and honed, her stories filled with subtly sly characterizations of men and, mostly, women, dissatisfied not so much with the downward spiral of their fortunes as with the hollowness of their neat little lives. Whether focused on the separate emergences of Miss Goering and Mrs. Copperfield from their affluent, airless lives in New York and Panama into a less defined but intense sexual and social maelstrom in the novella <i>Two Serious Ladies</i>, or on the doomed efforts of the neighbors Mr. Drake and Mrs. Perry to form a connection out of their very different loneliness in "Plain Pleasures," or on the bittersweet cultural collision of an American wife and a peasant woman in Morocco in "Everything Is Nice," Jane Bowles creates whole worlds out of the unexpressed longings of individuals, adrift in their own lives, whether residing in their childhood homes or in faraway lands that are somehow both stranger and more familiar than what they left behind.<br></div> 2104998 1966 My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles total:153|5:72|4:50|3:23|2:7|1:1| 153 644 266 25 4 1 false false Tue May 12 16:50:39 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 16:54:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Jun 17 19:15:14 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 12:46:41 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 19:15:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jun 11 08:47:59 -0700 2009 Fri Jan 02 22:32:43 -0800 2009 Thu Jun 11 08:47:59 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 07:33:13 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 09:20:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 17:14:57 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 13 16:06:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Mar 09 12:41:27 -0800 2007 Tue Jun 05 22:30:59 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Jul 02 08:14:27 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 11 15:51:35 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 30 09:26:28 -0700 2008 Sun May 24 02:07:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Thu Jan 03 20:40:35 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 03 20:47:51 -0800 2008 How do I tell you about Jane Bowles writing ? Wife of Paul Bowles (strangest marriage ever!), her work either drives you crazy or you fall in love. There is no middle ground, I'm afraid. Her characters are quirky, odd beyond belief...her stories have odd twists and turns, yet it all rings true...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 30 01:19:57 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 03 15:36:39 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Tue Nov 20 12:30:03 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 20 12:37:48 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Dec 08 10:00:04 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 08 10:05:33 -0800 2007 This is page one, describing a small child. This is how much this book rules.]]> 5 0 false false Wed Nov 28 11:42:24 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 03 11:24:14 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 28 11:41:44 -0800 2007 3 0 false false Tue Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 07:09:58 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 08:35:23 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Mon Mar 10 08:10:35 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 19 19:43:28 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 10 08:10:25 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 11 11:33:10 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 13 07:38:21 -0800 2007 4 0 false false Wed Sep 19 12:25:55 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 19 12:28:02 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Sun Aug 12 16:46:44 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 12 21:50:48 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Wed Aug 08 07:07:40 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 08 07:08:24 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Sun Oct 12 21:58:07 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 07 22:13:27 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=183332