Plain Pleasures av Jane Bowles

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<p><font><b>WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CHRIS POWER<br></b><br>''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'' <br><b>Ali Smith<br></b><br>''The most important writer of prose fiction in modern American letters'' <br><b>Tennessee Williams<br></b><br>''A modern legend'' <br><b>Truman Capote<br></b><br>''Bowles is a master of the unforgettable phrase that no one else could have written'' <br><b>William S. Burroughs<br></b><br>''A dizzyingly original stylist'' <br><i><b>New York Times</b></i></font><br><br><font><i><b>"It''s the truth," the women said from their mattress "Everything is nice".</b></i></font><br><br>Alva, a widow, states a preference for plain ordinary pleasures - only to get drunk and flirtatious, and pass out in a strange bed when she is asked out for the evening.<br><br>Sadie, a spinster, goes to a holiday resort complete with pine groves, marshmallows and respectable