1987, ISBN: 9780720606133

[ED: Hardcover], [PU: Peter Owens], Datum/Stempel Cover-Innenseite vorne. Jane Bowles, who died in 1973, was one of the most original and brilliant writers of the modern period. Her body … Mehr…

[ED: Hardcover], [PU: Peter Owens], Datum/Stempel Cover-Innenseite vorne. Jane Bowles, who died in 1973, was one of the most original and brilliant writers of the modern period. Her body of work was small, her literary output diminishing from 1957 when, aged only forty, she suffered a stroke. Yet her reputation has increased year by year and her books are read throughout the world. She is now, as Truman Capote remarks III his Introduction, a 'modern legend'. This collection brings together all Jane Bowles's writings. It contains her novel, Two Serious Ladies, the story of two staid women 'going to pieces' as they pursue their own eccentric paths to freedom, which has been hailed as a landmark in twentieth-century American literature. Her short stories share the same sharpness, wit and originality. As well as the seven stories first published in the collection Plain Pleasures, the volume presents six fictional pieces found in Jane Bowles's notebooks after her death. The book also includes her remarkable play, In the Summer House, described by Tennessee Williams as 'a piece of dramatic literature that stands altogether alone ... one of those rare plays which are not tested by the theatre but by which the theatre is tested'. 'Her novel Two Serious Ladies is a work of peculiar sharpness, originality, and power, and so are the short stories which follow it. ... There is a lot of beautiful and accomplished prose in this book.' -Robert Nye, The Guardian 'One of the finest modern writers of fiction in any language . ... No other contemporary writer can consistently produce surprise of this quality, the surprise that is the one essential ingredient of great art. Jane Bowles deals almost exclusively in this rare commodity.' -John Ashbery, New York Times Book Review 'One of the really original pure stylists.' -Truman Capote 'I have long been an admirer of Jane Bowles' work. Now I am struck again by the subtlety, sharpness and surprise of her observation, and the cool economy of her style, in fact by the rare originality, and considerable depth, of her writing. ' -Sybille Bedford 'Two Serious Ladies is a landmark in 20th-century American literature, leading many other writers through the unique world of modern American gothic. Her brilliant style makes' it an experience to read.' -Alan Sillitoe 'This bizarre and marvellous writer. ... Mrs Bowles's oeuvre is all the more unique because of its Grand Guignol hilarity, its constant surprises, and a blend of realism and grotesqueness.... There is extraordinary tension between the sturdy, supernormal physical world she describes and the gloriously unpredictable, fantastic movements of the eccentric personages who inhabit it.... And Mrs Bowles's lithe, feverish dialogue has a blend of childlike integrity, surreal candour and deadly precision often worthy of Lewis Carroll.' -Francine du Plessix Gray 'Two Serious Ladies shows a courageous independence and a ruthless reality of attitude towards its characters. ... A delicious tale, insistent, witty, hallucinatory.' -Scotsman 'In the best of Jane Bowles's fiction her waspish style is not only illuminating but bizarrely entertaining, and leaves no doubt of her originality. In Plain Pleasures she appears at her best.... The stories show that she was a master of the form, and the play puts her in the front rank of modern American dramatists.' -Spectator, DE, leichte Gebrauchsspuren, privates Angebot, 222 x 145 mm, 476, [GW: 753g], [PU: London], Banküberweisung, PayPal, Selbstabholung und Barzahlung, [CT: Romane/Erzählungen / Kurzgeschichten]<

1987, ISBN: 9780720606133

[ED: Hardcover], [PU: Peter Owens], Datum/Stempel Cover-Innenseite vorne. Jane Bowles, who died in 1973, was one of the most original and brilliant writers of the modern period. Her body … Mehr…

[ED: Hardcover], [PU: Peter Owens], Datum/Stempel Cover-Innenseite vorne. Jane Bowles, who died in 1973, was one of the most original and brilliant writers of the modern period. Her body of work was small, her literary output diminishing from 1957 when, aged only forty, she suffered a stroke. Yet her reputation has increased year by year and her books are read throughout the world. She is now, as Truman Capote remarks III his Introduction, a 'modern legend'. This collection brings together all Jane Bowles's writings. It contains her novel, Two Serious Ladies, the story of two staid women 'going to pieces' as they pursue their own eccentric paths to freedom, which has been hailed as a landmark in twentieth-century American literature. Her short stories share the same sharpness, wit and originality. As well as the seven stories first published in the collection Plain Pleasures, the volume presents six fictional pieces found in Jane Bowles's notebooks after her death. The book also includes her remarkable play, In the Summer House, described by Tennessee Williams as 'a piece of dramatic literature that stands altogether alone ... one of those rare plays which are not tested by the theatre but by which the theatre is tested'. 'Her novel Two Serious Ladies is a work of peculiar sharpness, originality, and power, and so are the short stories which follow it. ... There is a lot of beautiful and accomplished prose in this book.' -Robert Nye, The Guardian 'One of the finest modern writers of fiction in any language . ... No other contemporary writer can consistently produce surprise of this quality, the surprise that is the one essential ingredient of great art. Jane Bowles deals almost exclusively in this rare commodity.' -John Ashbery, New York Times Book Review 'One of the really original pure stylists.' -Truman Capote 'I have long been an admirer of Jane Bowles' work. Now I am struck again by the subtlety, sharpness and surprise of her observation, and the cool economy of her style, in fact by the rare originality, and considerable depth, of her writing. ' -Sybille Bedford 'Two Serious Ladies is a landmark in 20th-century American literature, leading many other writers through the unique world of modern American gothic. Her brilliant style makes' it an experience to read.' -Alan Sillitoe 'This bizarre and marvellous writer. ... Mrs Bowles's oeuvre is all the more unique because of its Grand Guignol hilarity, its constant surprises, and a blend of realism and grotesqueness.... There is extraordinary tension between the sturdy, supernormal physical world she describes and the gloriously unpredictable, fantastic movements of the eccentric personages who inhabit it.... And Mrs Bowles's lithe, feverish dialogue has a blend of childlike integrity, surreal candour and deadly precision often worthy of Lewis Carroll.' -Francine du Plessix Gray 'Two Serious Ladies shows a courageous independence and a ruthless reality of attitude towards its characters. ... A delicious tale, insistent, witty, hallucinatory.' -Scotsman 'In the best of Jane Bowles's fiction her waspish style is not only illuminating but bizarrely entertaining, and leaves no doubt of her originality. In Plain Pleasures she appears at her best.... The stories show that she was a master of the form, and the play puts her in the front rank of modern American dramatists.' -Spectator, DE, leichte Gebrauchsspuren, privates Angebot, 222 x 145 mm, 476, [GW: 753g], [PU: London], Banküberweisung, PayPal, Selbstabholung und Barzahlung, [CT: Romane/Erzählungen / Gay/Schwul]<

1984, ISBN: 9780720606133

Gebundene Ausgabe

Introduction: TRUMAN CAPOTE, Peter Owen Publishers, Hardcover, Auflage: 1st UK edition, 484 Seiten, Publiziert: 1984-01-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.8 kg, Verkaufsrang: 1121942, P… Mehr…

Introduction: TRUMAN CAPOTE, Peter Owen Publishers, Hardcover, Auflage: 1st UK edition, 484 Seiten, Publiziert: 1984-01-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.8 kg, Verkaufsrang: 1121942, Poetry, Drama & Criticism, Subjects, Books, Peter Owen Publishers, 1984<

1984, ISBN: 9780720606133

Einleitung: TRUMAN CAPOTE, Peter Owen Publishers, Gebundene Ausgabe, 484 Seiten, Publiziert: 1984-01-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.76 kg, Lyrik, Literatur & Fiktion, Kategorien, Bü… Mehr…

Einleitung: TRUMAN CAPOTE, Peter Owen Publishers, Gebundene Ausgabe, 484 Seiten, Publiziert: 1984-01-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.76 kg, Lyrik, Literatur & Fiktion, Kategorien, Bücher, Englische Bücher, Peter Owen Publishers, 1984<

ISBN: 9780720606133

Paperback. Good., 2.5