Wide Sargasso Sea (Norton Paperback Fiction) - Softcover

Rhys, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393310485 ISBN 13: 9780393310481

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1993

Synopsis

Prequel to: Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bront'e.

About this title

Review:

The novel is a triumph of atmosphere of what one is tempted to call Caribbean Gothic atmosphere It has an almost hallucinatory quality. "

About the Author:

Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1894. Coming to England aged 16, she drifted into various jobs before starting to write in Paris in the late '20s. After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie was written in 1930. Her early novels, often portraying women as underdogs out to exploit their sexualities, were ahead of their time and only modestly successful. From 1939 onwards she lived reclusively, and was largely forgotten when she made a sensational comeback with Wide Sargasso Sea in 1966. She died in 1979.

About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0393310485
• ISBN 13: 9780393310481
• Binding: Paperback