Two Serious Ladies
10 best books like Two Serious Ladies (Jane Bowles): The Sheltering Sky, The Opposing Shore, Nightwood, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom: Stories, Thérèse et Isabelle, Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction, After Claude, The Word Pretty, Spring and All, In Youth Is Pleasure
| Author | Paul Bowles |
| ISBN | 0141023422 |
In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture--and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. The story of three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa, The Sheltering Sky is at once...
| Author | Julien Gracq |
| ISBN | 0002712245 |
The great maritime state of Orsenna has long been lulled by settled peace and prosperity. It is three hundred years since it was actively at war with its traditional enemy two days' sail across the water, the savage land of Farghestan - a slumbering but by no means extinct volcano. The narrator of this...
| Author | Djuna Barnes |
| ISBN | 0811216713 |
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (TLS). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna—a...
| Author | Amy Hempel |
| ISBN | 0060976713 |
I've been reading from The Complete Stories by Amy Hempel, one story collection at a time, while on vacation. This is the second one she wrote, and it is most unusual, interesting, and emotionally compelling. Some of these stories are as short as 1-2 pages, the longest being about 12 pages. She is very...
| Author | Violette Leduc |
| ISBN | 2070758958 |
« Isabelle allongée sur la nuit enrubannait mes pieds, déroulait la bandelette du trouble. Les mains à plat sur le matelas, je faisais le même travail de charme qu’elle. Elle embrassait ce qu’elle avait caressé puis, de sa main légère, elle ébouriffait et époussetait avec le plumeau...
| Author | Charles Baxter |
| ISBN | 1555972705 |
"Lately I've been possessed of a singularly unhappy idea: The greatest influence on American fiction for the last twenty years may have been Richard Nixon." What happens to American fiction in a time when villains are deprived of their villainy; when our consumer culture insists on happy endings?...
| Author | Iris Owens |
| ISBN | 1590173635 |
Harriet is leaving her boyfriend Claude, “the French rat.” That at least is how Harriet sees things, even if it’s Claude who has just asked Harriet to leave his Greenwich Village apartment. Well, one way or another she has no intention of leaving. She will stay and exact revenge—or would have...
| Author | Elisa Gabbert |
| ISBN | 1939568269 |
Elisa Gabbert's recent essay in The Paris Review—"On Writerly Jealousy"—made me very glad not to be a nonfiction writer, because Gabbert's essays collected here are exactly the sort that would drive me batty with jealousy. "Reading writers I admire writing about things I want to write about,...
| Author | William Carlos Williams |
Valérie Rouzeau, translator.
Spring and All is a manifesto of the imagination — a hybrid of alternating sections of prose and free verse that coalesce in dramatic, energetic, and beautifully cryptic statements of how language re-creates the world. Spring and All contains some of Williams’s...
| Author | Denton Welch |
| ISBN | 1904634176 |
Against the backdrop of an English country hotel in a languid pre-war summer, Denton Welch's alter ego, Orvil Pym, examines his early life and formative experiences with a Proustian intensity. An adolescent voyeur, Orvil takes pleasure in the microscopic observation of his relatives and fellow...
