Hardback Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys buy cheap. TXT book Wide Sargasso Sea for iPhone on Dymocks. MP3 ebook Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys download. Drawing on her own Caribbean background, she illuminates the setting’s impact on Rhys and her astonishing work.įictionBook Wide Sargasso Sea read iPad on Booktopia. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England, a body of fictionabove all, the extraordinary Wide Sargasso Seathat has a passionate following today. 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.Ī new introduction by the award-winning Edwidge Danticat, author most recently of Claire of the Sea Light, expresses the enduring importance of this work. Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century.
This mesmerizing work introduces us to Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Mr. 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. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center stage. Awards: WH Smith Literary Award (1967), W.H.Characters: Antoinette Cosway, Tia, Aunt Cora, Grace Poole, Richard Mason.Genres: fiction, classics, literature, historical, feminism, novels, school.
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