Good Morning, Midnight (Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

Rhys, Jean

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9780140183436: Good Morning, Midnight (Twentieth Century Classics S.)

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ISBN 10: 0140183434 ISBN 13: 9780140183436

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1990

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Jean Rhys wrote about women in an innovative and often controversial way. In this novel she created an portrait of a woman forced to confront her own inevitable loneliness and despair. This book was first published in 1939.

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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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