Two Serious Ladies (Penguin Modern Classics)

About this book

This is the only novel that Bowles completed before being incapacitated by illness. It is a humorous account of the lives of two women of very different characters both sliding into alcoholism and a bohemian existence. The interwoven narratives of these two serious ladies embody the theme of womens desire for freedom. Bowles chaotic comic novel is a celebration of the defiant mores of her own life proclaiming a right to female freedom which shocked her contemporaries.