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The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys

Author : Lilian Pizzichini
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393079392
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys written by Lilian Pizzichini and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking biography of a psychologically traumatized novelist who forever changed the way we look at women in fiction. Jean Rhys (1890–1979) is best known for her 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea. A prequel to Jane Eyre, Rhys’s revolutionary work reimagined the story of Bertha Rochester—the misunderstood “madwoman in the attic” who was driven to insanity by cruelties beyond her control. The Blue Hour performs a similar exhumation of Rhys’s life, which was haunted by demons from within and without. Its examination of Rhys’s pain and loss charts her desperate journey from the jungles of Dominica to a British boarding school, and then into an adult life scarred by three failed marriages, the deaths of her two children, and her long battle with alcoholism.A mesmerizing evocation of a fragile and brilliant mind, The Blue Hour explores the crucial element that ultimately spared Rhys from the fate of her most famous protagonist: a genius that rescued her, again and again, from the abyss.

The Blue Hour

Author : Lilian Pizzichini
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408813076
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Blue Hour written by Lilian Pizzichini and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Rhys was an artist of brilliance and fury best known for her late literary masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea. But she was also a woman in constant psychological turmoil, whose blazing talent rescued her time and time again from the abyss. Lilian Pizzichini follows Rhys from her girlhood in Dominica, through three failed marriages and five misunderstood books, up to her death in 1979. This is an unforgettable portrait of a woman whose writing was both her life and her lifeline.

Jean Rhys

Author : Carole Angier
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571276417
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (764 download)

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Download or read book Jean Rhys written by Carole Angier and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An acute literary intelligence ... the reader comes to trust instinctively Angier's assessments.' New York Times Jean Rhys (1890-1979) had a long life of great difficulty. So inept was she in its management that her authority as the writer of five beautifully shaped and controlled novels appears mysterious: how could someone so bad at living be so good at writing about it? Carole Angier answers this question. Jean Rhys never denied that she used her own experience in her writings, but no one hitherto has understood so well the nature of, and reasons for, this use. On her way to understanding, Carole Angier discovered more about the life than seemed possible. Jean Rhys's childhood, her momentous first love affair, her three marriages, the disasters which befell her husbands, her drinking and its consequences: all are shown with unsparing clarity. Equally clearly, and more importantly, we see the dynamics of her personality as it underwent, and sometimes provoked, these experiences. Sometimes what is revealed is shocking; but Carole Angier's sympathy and compassion dispel dismay, and her brilliant demonstrations of how art was made of events and emotions restores admiration on foundations which are stronger than ever. Jean Rhys did not want anyone to write about her, but this first full biography put beyond question her standing as a great writer of our time, written with an intensity and clarity which mirrors her own. It is a work of exceptional intimacy, sensitivity and power. 'Remarkable, the definitive biography. It is deeply researched, subtle, sympathetic.' Claire Tomalin Independent on Sunday 'Mesmerising.' Washington Post

Wide Sargasso Sea

Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393308808
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Wide Sargasso Sea written by Jean Rhys and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A considerable tour de force by any standard." ?New York Times Book Review"

I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

Author : Miranda Seymour
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324006137
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys written by Miranda Seymour and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Enthralling.… Seymour powerfully evokes the world from which Rhys never really escaped, one of prejudice, abuse, and abuse’s shamefaced offspring, complicity.” —James Wood, The New Yorker An intimate, profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea. Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. 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 fiction—above all, the extraordinary Wide Sargasso Sea—that has a passionate following today. And yet her own colorful life, including her early years on the Caribbean island of Dominica, remains too little explored, until now. In I Used to Live Here Once, Miranda Seymour sheds new light on the artist whose proud and fiercely solitary life profoundly informed her writing. Rhys experienced tragedy and extreme poverty, alcohol and drug dependency, romantic and sexual turmoil, all of which contributed to the “Rhys woman” of her oeuvre. Today, readers still intuitively relate to her unforgettable characters, vulnerable, watchful, and often alarmingly disaster-prone outsiders; women with a different way of moving through the world. And yet, while her works often contain autobiographical material, Rhys herself was never a victim. The figure who emerges for Seymour is cultured, self-mocking, unpredictable—and shockingly contemporary. Based on new research in the Caribbean, a wealth of never-before-seen papers, journals, letters, and photographs, and interviews with those who knew Rhys, I Used to Live Here Once is a luminous and penetrating portrait of a fascinatingly elusive artist.

The Left Bank and Other Stories

Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Left Bank and Other Stories written by Jean Rhys and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie

Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393315479
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie written by Jean Rhys and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Martin is in Paris and at the end of her rope. Once beautiful, she was taken care of by men. Now after being dropped by her latest lover, she visits London to see her ailing mother and meets up with her distrustful sister, Norah. This is a haunting picture of two desperate women in a desperate predicament.

Good Morning, Midnight

Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393303940
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Good Morning, Midnight written by Jean Rhys and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman encounters a life filled with desires and emotions when she returns to Paris after suffering from a bout of depression and alcoholism in London.

Smile Please

Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780141984544
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Smile Please written by Jean Rhys and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A View of the Empire at Sunset

Author : Caryl Phillips
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374718504
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book A View of the Empire at Sunset written by Caryl Phillips and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author Caryl Phillips presents a biographical novel of the life of Jean Rhys, the author of Wide Sargasso Sea, which she wrote as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Caryl Phillips’s A View of the Empire at Sunset is the sweeping story of the life of the woman who became known to the world as Jean Rhys. Born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams in Dominica at the height of the British Empire, Rhys lived in the Caribbean for only sixteen years before going to England. A View of the Empire at Sunset is a look into her tempestuous and unsatisfactory life in Edwardian England, 1920s Paris, and then again in London. Her dream had always been to one day return home to Dominica. In 1936, a forty-five-year-old Rhys was finally able to make the journey back to the Caribbean. Six weeks later, she boarded a ship for England, filled with hostility for her home, never to return. Phillips’s gripping new novel is equally a story about the beginning of the end of a system that had sustained Britain for two centuries but that wreaked havoc on the lives of all who lived in the shadow of the empire: both men and women, colonizer and colonized. A true literary feat, A View of the Empire at Sunset uncovers the mysteries of the past to illuminate the predicaments of the present, getting at the heart of alienation, exile, and family by offering a look into the life of one of the greatest storytellers of the twentieth century and retelling a profound story that is singularly its own.

Blue

Author : Emmelie Prophète
Publisher : AmazonCrossing
ISBN 13 : 9781542031318
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Blue written by Emmelie Prophète and published by AmazonCrossing. This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning Haitian novel about silence, beauty, and the solidarity of tears. Airports are distillations of the world. I like thinking of them that way. The hope of leaving and the desire to come home, existing side by side. Any voyage is possible. My mind flies off toward the blue province once again. I don't know, anymore, why I always associate it with blue. It isn't even my favorite color. Traveling alone from Miami to Port-au-Prince, our narrator finds comfort at the airport. She feels free to ponder the silence that surrounds her homeland, her mother, her aunts, and her own inner thoughts. Between two places, she sees how living in poverty keeps women silent, forging their identities around practicality and resilience. From a distance, she is drawn inevitably homeward toward her family and the glittering blue Caribbean Sea. Blue comes alive through vivid images crowding the page, just as memories do in real life, as if the author is trying to sort through them, to come to grips with her own emotional conflict. Balancing the pain and anger are spiritual bonds that connect the author to the women who have come before her, who have created her, and with Haiti itself, her motherland. No amount of glittering opportunity up north can prevent her from finding her way home.

Till September Petronella

Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780241337585
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Till September Petronella written by Jean Rhys and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So there's a good time coming for the ladies, is there?-a good time coming for the girls? About time too' Stories of women adrift in seedy bars and down-at-heel hotels, from a master of the short story form.

On the Blue Comet

Author : Rosemary Wells
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 076363722X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book On the Blue Comet written by Rosemary Wells and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Losing his family home and beloved model train set during the Great Depression, 11-year-old Oscar is forced to move in with difficult relatives before meeting an enigmatic drifter and witnessing an incredible crime that prompts his cross-country, celebrity-marked train journey. By the award-winning creator of the Max and Ruby series. 50,000 first printing.

Her Royal Spyness

Author : Rhys Bowen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101207361
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Her Royal Spyness written by Rhys Bowen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FIRST ROYAL SPYNESS MYSTERY! The New York Times bestselling author of the Molly Murphy and Constable Evan Evans mysteries turns her attentions to “a feisty new heroine to delight a legion of Anglophile readers.”* London, 1932. Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, 34th in line for the English throne, is flat broke. She's bolted Scotland, her greedy brother, and her fish-faced betrothed. London is a place where she'll experience freedom, learn life lessons aplenty, do a bit of spying for HRH—oh, and find a dead Frenchman in her tub. Now her new job is to clear her long family name...

Letters, 1931-1966

Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780140189063
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Letters, 1931-1966 written by Jean Rhys and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1995-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Final Passage

Author : Caryl Phillips
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525562818
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Final Passage written by Caryl Phillips and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the British-West Indian novelist who is rapidly emerging as the bard of the African diaspora comes a haunting work about “the final passage”—the exodus of black West Indians from their impoverished islands to the uncertain opportunities of England. In her village of St. Patrick’s, Leila Preston has no prospects, a young son, and a husband, Michael, who seems to prefer the company of his mistress. So when her ailing mother travels to England for medical care, Leila decides to follow her. As Caryl Phillips follows the Prestons’ outward voyage—and their bewildered attempt to find a home in a country whose rooming houses post signs announcing “No vacancies for coloureds”—he produces a tragicomic portrait of hope and dislocation. The Final Passage is a novel rich in language, acute in its grasp of character, and unforgettable in its vision of the colonial legacy. “Like Isabel Allende and Gabriel García Márquez, Phillips writes of times so heady and chaotic and of characters so compelling that time moves as if guided by the moon and dreams.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review

Difficult Women

Author : David Plante
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681371502
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Difficult Women written by David Plante and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Plante's dazzling portraits of three influential women in the literary world, now back in print for the first time in decades. Difficult Women presents portraits of three extraordinary, complicated, and, yes, difficult women, while also raising intriguing and, in their own way, difficult questions about the character and motivations of the keenly and often cruelly observant portraitist himself. The book begins with David Plante’s portrait of Jean Rhys in her old age, when the publication of The Wide Sargasso Sea, after years of silence that had made Rhys’s great novels of the 1920s and ’30s as good as unknown, had at last gained genuine recognition for her. Rhys, however, can hardly be said to be enjoying her new fame. A terminal alcoholic, she curses and staggers and rants like King Lear on the heath in the hotel room that she has made her home, while Plante looks impassively on. Sonia Orwell is his second subject, a suave exploiter and hapless victim of her beauty and social prowess, while the unflappable, brilliant, and impossibly opinionated Germaine Greer sails through the final pages, ever ready to set the world, and any erring companion, right.