- City and town life, Fiction, Fiction, general, Paris (france), fiction
Sasha Jensen is rescued from her dismal room in London where she has been drinking herself to death and returns to Paris where she is picked up by a young man. For the first time in ages, she begins to feel she is still alive, still capable of desires and emotions.
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Grave, intimate, prestige and earnest.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Jean Rhys
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 190
- Publisher
- Denoël, Penguin Classics, Penguin Classic
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- English, French, und, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9780233977225
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“'QUITE like old times,' the room says.”
Jean Rhys, born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams in 1890, was a 20th-century novelist and writer of short stories. Born and raised on the Caribbean island of Dominica, she moved to England at age 16, became a chorus girl, and embarked on the life of a demimondaine there and in Europe. Her deep sense of being an outsider -- the descendant of white colonialists in the Caribbean, then a Creole in England -- never left her and deeply informed her work. Rhys's evocative sketches in the 1920s caught the eye, and briefly earned the patronage, of Ford Madox Ford (her fraught relationship with him is explored in her debut novel, Quartet [1928]). She is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), w
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