false 215236 16529 183332 0374529787 9780374529789 25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172517630m/183332.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172517630s/183332.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/183332.My_Sister_s_Hand_in_Mine_The_Collected_Works_of_Jane_Bowles 4.25 146 Two Serious Ladies, 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.
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