A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles / Edition 1

by Millicent Dillon

Overview

Tennessee Williams called Jane Bowles "the most important writer of prose fiction in modern American letters." John Ashbery said she was "one of the finest modern writers of fiction in any language," consistently producing "the surprise that is the one essential ingredient of great art." Here, available again, is the only biography of this powerful writer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520211933
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	04/01/1998
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	476
Sales rank:	1,043,624
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Millicent Dillon is a novelist and a biographer. She is the author of You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles and other works including The Dance of the Mothers and After Egypt: Isadora Duncan and Mary Cassatt. She lives in San Francisco.

Editorial Reviews

A thorough biography of Jane Bowles, a book that never cheaply psycho-analyzes its subject but rather presents the woman and her work with sensitivity and admiration. -- The Chicago Tribune

Edmund White