Two Serious Ladies
This comedy of manners follows the decline into debauchery of two different women, one a spinster who turns into a high class prostitute and the other a woman who changes her husband for Pacifia, a Panamanian. The author has previously written "Everything is Nice" and "A Little Original Sin".
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This comedy of manners follows the decline into debauchery of two different women, one a spinster who turns into a high class prostitute and the other a woman who changes her husband for Pacifia, a Panamanian. The author has previously written "Everything is Nice" and "A Little Original Sin".
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780720611793 (0720611792)
Publish date: August 26th 2003
Publisher: Peter Owen
Pages no: 234
Edition language: English
Lovely book that's character and dialogue and character driven. Everyone speaks their minds directly. In a sense, if feels like a novelised play. The feel is very William Trevor-like. Here's a good review from The Guardian. From the introduction by Francine du Plessix Gray:: And Mrs Bowles lit...
She was suffering as much as she had ever suffered before, because she was going to do what she wanted to do. But it would not make her happy. She did not have the courage to stop from doing what she wanted to do. She knew that it would not make her happy, because only the dreams of crazy people com...
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