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Plain Pleasures: With an Introduction by Chris Power

Paperback | English

By (author): Jane Bowles

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CHRIS POWER

''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

''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

It''s the truth, the women said from their mattress Everything is nice .

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.

A W&N Essential

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Will deliver when available. Publication date 17 Mar 2022

Product Details
  • Format: Paperback
  • Weight: 106g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Mar 2022
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781474620437

About 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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