TY  - BOOK
N2  - One novel, one play, nine shorter works originally published from 1944-1966, twelve notebook excerpts, and 133 letters from 1935-1970.
N2  - Two serious ladies: A modernist cult-classic, mysterious, profound, anarchic, and funny, and only novel by avant-garde literary star and wife of legendary writer Paul Bowles. Christina Goering and Frieda Copperfield, both upper-class women, embark on separate quests of salvation, ultimately descending into debauchery--Miss Goering becomes involved with various men, and Mrs. Copperfield visits Panama with her husband, where she finds solace among the women who live and work in its brothels. At the end the two women meet again, each transformed by her experience."--Amazon.com.
N2  - In the summer house: The plot of this play is driven by character interactions, comparing two widows and their unstable daughters--Gertrude Eastman Cuevas, an overbearing mother and her gentle daughter Molly, and Mrs. Constable, a gentle mother and her overbearing daughter Vivian. The second act occurs in a restaurant named The Lobster Bowl and uses intensive food imagery.
N2  - In the summer house: Bowles' only full-length play was first performed in 1951 in the Hedgerow Theater in Moylan, Pennsylvania. The Broadway play opened at the Playhouse Theatre December 29, 1953 with music by Paul Bowles, her husband, where it ran for two months to mixed reviews and low attendance. Around 1963, the play was revived. The play was revived again in 1993 At the Vivian Beaumont Theater with incidental music by Philip Glass. A later Washington Shakespeare Company production featured music by Richard Reinfield.
AB  - One novel, one play, nine shorter works originally published from 1944-1966, twelve notebook excerpts, and 133 letters from 1935-1970.
AB  - Two serious ladies: A modernist cult-classic, mysterious, profound, anarchic, and funny, and only novel by avant-garde literary star and wife of legendary writer Paul Bowles. Christina Goering and Frieda Copperfield, both upper-class women, embark on separate quests of salvation, ultimately descending into debauchery--Miss Goering becomes involved with various men, and Mrs. Copperfield visits Panama with her husband, where she finds solace among the women who live and work in its brothels. At the end the two women meet again, each transformed by her experience."--Amazon.com.
AB  - In the summer house: The plot of this play is driven by character interactions, comparing two widows and their unstable daughters--Gertrude Eastman Cuevas, an overbearing mother and her gentle daughter Molly, and Mrs. Constable, a gentle mother and her overbearing daughter Vivian. The second act occurs in a restaurant named The Lobster Bowl and uses intensive food imagery.
AB  - In the summer house: Bowles' only full-length play was first performed in 1951 in the Hedgerow Theater in Moylan, Pennsylvania. The Broadway play opened at the Playhouse Theatre December 29, 1953 with music by Paul Bowles, her husband, where it ran for two months to mixed reviews and low attendance. Around 1963, the play was revived. The play was revived again in 1993 At the Vivian Beaumont Theater with incidental music by Philip Glass. A later Washington Shakespeare Company production featured music by Richard Reinfield.
T1  - Collected writings :Two serious ladies ; In the summer house ; Stories & other writings ; Letters /
AU  - Bowles, Jane,
AU  - Dillon, Millicent,
AU  - Bowles, Jane,
AU  - Bowles, Jane,
VL  - 288
CN  - PS3503.O837
CN  - PS3503.O837
N1  - "Volume compilation, notes, and chronology copyright © 2017 by Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y."--Title page verso.  According to ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer website, Literary Classics of the United States Inc does business as The Library of America.  [Accessed June 1, 2017].
ID  - 807865
KW  - Rich people
KW  - Single women
KW  - Life change events
KW  - Prostitution
KW  - Phobias
KW  - Eccentrics and eccentricities
KW  - Families
KW  - Dysfunctional families
KW  - Mothers
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Theater
KW  - Women authors, American
KW  - Short stories, American.
KW  - Drama
SN  - 9781598535136
SN  - 1598535137
TI  - Collected writings :Two serious ladies ; In the summer house ; Stories & other writings ; Letters /
ER  -