Out in the World: Selected Letters of Jane Bowles, 1935-1970 - Softcover

Bowles, Jane

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9780876856253: Out in the World: Selected Letters of Jane Bowles, 1935-1970

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ISBN 10: 0876856253 ISBN 13: 9780876856253

Publisher: Black Sparrow Press, 1985

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For John Ashbery, Jane Bowles was "one of the finest modern writers of fiction, in any language." Her body of work is small: a novel, a play, and six short stories. And now we have her letters - 133 of them - which, like everything she wrote, are exercises in literary precision. As her editor Millicent Dillon writes, "they are exercises in emotional accuracy as well," little essays in which Bowles explained her joys, doubts, and obesssions to herself and to her correspondents, including her husband, Paul Bowles.
Includes 14 pages of black-&-white photographs.

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About the Author:

Millicent Dillon is the author of A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles.

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I have long been an admirer of Jane Bowles's work. Now I am struck again by the subtlety, sharpness, and surprise of her observation, the cool economy of her style, in fact by the rare originality and considerable depth of her writing. --Sybille Bedford

I consider her the most important writer of prose fiction in modern American letters. Her work, her life: deep truth, observed without pretension, with humor and humanity. An artist and person, an angel. --Tennessee Williams

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