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Plain Pleasures

Plain Pleasures

With an Introduction by Chris Power

by Jane Bowles
Paperback
Publication Date: 29/03/2022
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Alva, a widow, states a preference for plain ordinary pleasures - only to get drunk and flirtatious, and pass out in a strange bed when she is asked out for the evening.

Sadie, a spinster, goes to a holiday resort complete with pine groves, marshmallows and respectable clientele - to bring her nervous sister home, but instead comes to an eerie end herself.

Mary, a little girl, spends her days in a clay pit leading an imaginary army of hard-muscled men. But hen a strange boy invades her headquarters, Mary abandons her soldiers to follow him home.

Disturbing, unforgettable, totally unique - Jane Bowles' short stories explore the hidden lives of women that only appear ordinary.

With an introduction by Chris Power

ISBN:
9781474620437
9781474620437
Category:
Short stories
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
29-03-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
144
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x9mm
Weight:
0.3kg

'Readers who've not yet read Jane Bowles are almost to be envied, like people who've still to read Austen or Mansfield or Woolf'
ALI SMITH - seven short stories by the author of Two Serious Ladies

'The most important writer of prose fiction in modern American letters'
Tennessee Williams

'A modern legend'
Truman Capote

'Bowles is a master of the unforgettable phrase that no one else could have written'
William S. Burroughs

'A dizzyingly original stylist'
New York Times

Jane Bowles

Jane Bowles has long had an underground reputation as one of the truly original writers of the twentieth century. Born in New York City in 1917, she lived in Tangier, Morocco, with her husband, Paul Bowles, from 1952 until her death in 1973. Though she wrote only one novel, 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.

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