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$23.44
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2016
Summary
Jean Rhys’s beautifully written, bittersweet autobiography covers her chequered early years in Dominica, England, and Paris.
Rhys wrote this autobiography in her old age, now the celebrated author of Wide Sargasso Sea but still haunted by memories of her troubled past. These memories include her precarious jobs on chorus lines, relationships with unsuitable men, her enduring sense of isolation, and her decision to become a writer.
From the early days on Dominica to th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141984544 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141984546 |
| Author: | Jean Rhys |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2016 |
| Weight: | 142g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1894. After arriving in England aged sixteen, she became a chorus girl and drifted between different jobs before moving to Paris, where she started to write in the late 1920s. She published a story collection and four novels, after which she disappeared from view and lived reclusively for many years. In 1966 she made a sensational comeback with her masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea, written in difficult circumstances over a long period. Rhys died in 1979.
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