Two Serious Ladies
By: Jane Bowles ; introduction by Claire Messud
Contributors: Messud, Claire, 1966-
Edition: First Ecco paperback edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780062283122
Copyright date: 1943
Subjects: Eccentrics and eccentricities; Women; Phobias; Fiction
Description: "Christina Goering, eccentric and adventurous, and Frieda Copperfield, anxious but enterprising, are two serious ladies who want to live outside of themselves. Old friends, each will take a surprising path in search of salvation: during a visit to Panama, Mrs. Copperfield abandons her husband, finding solace in a relationship with a teenage prostitute; while Miss Goering, a wealthy spinster, pursues sainthood via sordid encounters with the basest of men. At the end the two women meet again, each radically altered by her experience"--Provided by publisher.