This is the definitive edition of Jane Bowles' stories, with a biographical note and photos. Jane Bowles wrote very little: just one perfect novel, Two Serious Ladies , a play, In the Summer House , and the dozen or so stories collected in this volume. But it was enough to establish a reputation as one of the twentieth century's most original fiction writers. From the title story where an American woman is led to a house in 'blue moslem town' by a veiled woman with porcupines in her basket, to Camp Cataract, a Colorado-based tour de force of middle-class claustrophobia and dread, Everything is Nice takes you into an edgy and exhilarating, tragicomic world.
Indhold: Plain pleasures -- Everything is nice -- Camp Cataract -- A quarreling pair -- A stick of green candy -- A Guatemalan idyll -- A day in the open -- Señorita Córdoba -- Out in the world -- Andrew -- Emmy Moore's journal -- Friday -- Going to Massachusetts -- The courtship of Janet Murphy -- Looking for Lane -- Laura and Sally -- The iron table -- Lila and Frank -- At the jumping bean -- In the summer house -- Six letters.