Plain Pleasures - Jane Bowles

'It's the truth,' the women said from their mattress 'Everything is nice'.'Readers who've not yet read Jane Bowles are almost to be envied, like people who've still to read Austen or Mansfield or Woolf' Ali Smith'Jane Bowles's literary output, small but perfect, puts her on a stylistic planet all her own' New Yorker 'A dizzyingly original stylist' New York TimesAlva, a widow, states a preference for plain ordinary pleasures - only to get drunk and flirtatious, and pass out in a strange bed when she... Zobrazit více