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Your support makes all the difference.Jane Bowles, the cult writer who lived through several mental and physical breakdowns before her death in 1973, produced her best work in her mid-thirties.
This collection includes several short stories, fragments of novels, letters and sketches and her one play, "In the Summer House".
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In many of the stories, the female leads are torn between manic activity and passivity. Self-hatred is the pervading theme.
In "Camp Cataract", the runaway heroine introduces herself saying: "Suppose I tell you point blank that I'm an extremely original woman, but also a very shallow one.''
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