MY SISTER´S HAND IN MINE

Though she wrote only one novella, one short play, and fewer than a dozen short stories over a roughly twenty-year span from the ear ly 1940s to the mid-1960s, Jane Bowles has long been regarded by critics as one of the premier stylists of her generation. Enlivened at unexpected moments by sexual exploration, mysticism, and flashes of wit alternately dry and hilarious, her prose is spare and ho ned, her stories filled with subtly sly characterizations of men and, mostly, women, dissatisfied not so much with the downward spir al of th...[Read more]