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Author:	Jane Auer Bowles	Format:	Paperback
Publisher:	Farrar Straus & Giroux	ISBN-10:	0374529787
ISBN-13:	9780374529789	Subject:	--
Publication Year:	2005	Topic:	--
Special Attributes:	--	Language:	English
Condition:	Good

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A more extensive version of the volume published in 1966, this compilation brings together Jane Bowles's entire creative output. Includes TWO SERIOUS LADIES, IN THE SUMMER HOUSE, PLAIN PLEASURES, and seven short stories including "Camp Cataract," which Truman Capote called "a comic tale of doom that has at its heart, and as its heart, the subtlest comprehension of eccentricity and human apartness."
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Length:	476 pages
Height:	8.3 in.
Width:	5.5 in.
Thickness:	1.2 in.
Weight:	16.3 oz.

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"I consider her the most important writer of prose fiction in modern American letters." Tennessee Williams "If there is one common denominator in Bowles's work, it is women's relentless search for autonomy and self-knowledge, for release from conventional structures. And a demonic, frenzied search it becomes." New York Times Book Review - Francine Du Plessix Gray (02/19/1978) "Her language and her themes are sought after along tortured paths and in stony quarries: the never-realized relationships between her people, the mental and physical discomforts with which she surrounds and saturates them--every room an atrocity, every urban landscape a creation of neon-dourness." Introduction - Truman Capote "What is certain...is that Jane had only one real subject, women in relation to one another. Men hardly exist in her fiction....Jane performed like a libertine and enjoyed the mystique of promiscuity...but the fact remains, Jane shied away from naming her experience, and it killed her art. Despite her adventurousness, Jane was, it seems, fatally afraid of certain pieces of knowledge....If [she] hadn't been a writer, the retreat from her psyche might have been less catastrophic for her. But Jane was not only a writer, she was obsessed with a subject she couldn't talk about." Village Voice - Laurie Stone (08/19/1981) "Clearly Bowles is not doing missionary work on the subordinate condition of women. Her outlook is actually more radical. As she pictures them, women are simply not emotionally dependent on men, who have no entry into female inner life. Love and its bitter fruits...are found in women's relations with one another, as friends, mothers and daughters, sisters, lovers. Men exist as objects of physical passion, but the ravages, the theatrics of love have their root in another place....What we have from her is little enough, but there is nothing else quite like it." Ms. - Muriel Haynes (04/19/1978) "To read 'My Sister's Hand in Mine' is to submit to a demanding presence. Jane Bowles is one of those writers who can truly be said to inhabit a country of her own making....Bowles had a delightfully tart wit...that dilutes the profound sadness that seeps through her writing and gives an extra toughness to the poignancy of her outlook." New Republic - Daphne Merkin (02/11/1978)

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My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles

Jane Bowles

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Binding:	Paperback
Book Condition:	Good
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ISBN:	0374529787
Publication Date:	2005-09-19
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Pages:	496
Height:	1.4000 inches
Width:	5.2000 inches
Weight:	0.8500 pounds

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