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The story of a woman on the edge caught in the stranglehold between her lover and his wife. When her husband is released from prison, the situation explodes.
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Tells the stories of a chorus girl, an unhappy love affair, a prostitute, a woman no longer able to love, and an English-West Indian marriage
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"It is a book that does not invite comparisons. . . . Its excellence is individual, intrinsic; it measures itself against itself."--Saturday Review of Literature Julia Martin is at the end of her rope in Paris. Once beautiful, she was taken care of by men. Now after leaving her last lover, she is running out of luck and chances. A visit to London to see her ailing mother and distrustful sister bring her stark life into full focus. A masterful and terrifying tale from one of the truest voices in twentieth-century fiction.
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"No one who reads Good Morning, Midnight will ever forget it." - New York Times Sasha Jensen has returned to Paris, the city of both her happiest moments and her most desperate. Her past lies in wait for her in cafes, bars, and dress shops, blurring all distinctions between nightmare and reality. When she is picked up by a young man, she begins to feel that she is still capable of desires and emotions. Few encounters in fiction have been so brilliantly conceived, and few have come to a more unforgettable end.
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This “tour de force” (New York Times Book Review) celebrates its 50th anniversary. Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of fiction’s most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. This mesmerizing work introduces us to Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Mr. Rochester. Rhys portrays Cosway amidst a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind. A new introduction by the award-winning Edwidge Danticat, author most recently of Claire of the Sea Light, expresses the enduring importance of this work. Drawing on her own Caribbean background, she illuminates the setting’s impact on Rhys and her astonishing work.
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The complete novels of this outstanding author, with an Introduction by Diana Athill. CONTENTS: Voyage in the Dark, Quartet, After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, Good Morning Midnight, and Wide Sargasso Sea. 574 pages, beautifully illustrated with photographs by Brassai.
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Written over the course of twenty-one years and published in 1966, Wide Sargasso Sea, based on Charlotte Brontës Jane Eyre, takes place in Jamaica and Dominica in 183945. Textual notes illuminate the novels historical background, regional references, and the non-translated Creole and French phrases necessary to fully understand this powerful story. Backgrounds includes a wealth of material on the novels long evolution, it connections to Jane Eyre, and Rhyss biographical impressions of growing up in Dominica. Criticism introduces readers to the critical debates inspired by the novel with a Derek Walcott poem and eleven essays.
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In her will, Jean Rhys expressed a wish that no biography of her should be written unless authorized during her lifetime. Following her death, her literary executor was approached frequently with requests for permission to write "an official life". Finally he decided that, by compiling a volume of letters, authentic biographical information would be provided. But as the collection grew, the biographical aspect took on a secondary importance as the self-portrait began to reveal the turbulent process of literary creation. The final result is a portrait spanning the years 1931 (taking up the story roughly where it was left in "Smile Please") to 1966, when the long struggle to finish "Wide Sargasso Sea" was over.
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Rhys was born on 24 August, 1890 in Roseau, the capital of Dominica, an island in the British West Indies. Her father, William Rees Williams, was a Welsh doctor and her mother, Minna Williams, nee Lockhart, was a third-generation Dominican Creole of Scots ancestry. ("Creole" was broadly used in those times to refer to any person born on the island, whether they were of European or African descent or both. )
During World War I, having studied briefly at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, she withdrew because of her father's death and worked as a touring chorus girl.
In the 1920's she lived in the bohemian quarter of various continental cities and began writing sketches about mannequins, artistes, and unattached older women.
Ford Madox Ford recognized her talent and wrote a preface to The Left Bank (1927). He praised her instinct for form and "terrifying insight" into the life of the "underdog. " Subsequent novels, notably Quartet (1929), After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie (1931), and Good Morning, Midnight (1939), indict a smug society. Rhys then disappeared from the literary scene for a quarter of a century. She reemerged in 1966 with Wide Sargasso Sea, a lush, brooding tale of the exploitation of a 19th-century Creole heiress, based on the life of the first Mrs. Rochester in Jane Eyre.
The book, which won the coveted W. H. Smith Award, created renewed interest in her earlier work. Rhys's stories of city life and of her native Dominica are collected in Tigers Are Better-Looking (1968) and Sleep It Off, Lady (1976). She died in Devonshire, England, May 14, 1979. For further information consult Jean Rhys by Carole Angier (Little, Brown; 1991).
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Her social setting is bohemia, the London and Paris of cafes, cheap hotels, and dinner-for-one restaurants. Pleasure is sought but only melancholy and isolation are found.
Quotations: She said: "If I could choose I would rather be happy than write . .. if I could live my life all over again, and choose . .. ".
In 1919 Rhys married Willem Johan Marie (Jean) Lenglet, a French-Dutch journalist, spy and songwriter. He was the first of her three husbands. She and Lenglet wandered through Europe, living mainly in London, Paris and Vienna. They had two children, a son who died young and a daughter. They divorced in 1933.
The next year she married Leslie Tilden-Smith, an English editor. In 1937 she began a friendship with the novelist Eliot Bliss, who shared her Caribbean background. The correspondence between them survives. [6]
In 1939 Rhys and Tilden-Smith moved to Devon, where they lived for several years. He died in 1945. In 1947 Rhys married Max Hamer, a solicitor who was a cousin of Tilden-Smith. He was convicted of fraud and imprisoned after their marriage. He died in 1966.
