The Letters Of Jean Rhys
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few voices in twentieth-century literature are as searingly intimate as that of Jean Rhys — and in The Letters of Jean Rhys, that voice is laid bare in all its brilliance, vulnerability, and defiance. Selected and edited by Francis Wyndham and Diana Melly, this curated collection chronicles decades of correspondence that illuminate the life of the Dominican-born British author behind such masterworks as Wide Sargasso Sea and Good Morning, Midnight, tracing her struggles with poverty, obscurity, and creative isolation with unflinching candour. The letters stand as a literary document of extraordinary power, presenting a portrait of a woman who refused to be silenced even as the world conspired to forget her. Rhys writes with the same spare, emotionally charged prose that defines her fiction — unsentimental yet devastating, precise yet achingly human. For readers who know her novels, this collection deepens the mythology; for those who do not, it serves as an irresistible introduction to one of modernism's most compelling and undersung figures.
Author: Jean Rhys
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few voices in twentieth-century literature are as searingly intimate as that of Jean Rhys — and in The Letters of Jean Rhys, that voice is laid bare in all its brilliance, vulnerability, and defiance. Selected and edited by Francis Wyndham and Diana Melly, this curated collection chronicles decades of correspondence that illuminate the life of the Dominican-born British author behind such masterworks as Wide Sargasso Sea and Good Morning, Midnight, tracing her struggles with poverty, obscurity, and creative isolation with unflinching candour. The letters stand as a literary document of extraordinary power, presenting a portrait of a woman who refused to be silenced even as the world conspired to forget her. Rhys writes with the same spare, emotionally charged prose that defines her fiction — unsentimental yet devastating, precise yet achingly human. For readers who know her novels, this collection deepens the mythology; for those who do not, it serves as an irresistible introduction to one of modernism's most compelling and undersung figures.