TWO SERIOUS LADIES

by Jane Bowles

$1,750 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First Edition. Bowles's only novel, finished in 1941, centered around the theme of women and their attempts at independence. One of her protagonists, Christina Goering, tries to earn salvation by leaving her home and her female companion to challenge the hate outside world. There she takes up with a series of increasingly menacing male strangers, the last of whom abandons her. The second

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