{"product_id":"2026200016382-secondhand-jean-rhyss-letters-1931-1966","title":"Jean Rhys's Letters 1931-1966","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBehind the polished prose of one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic literary voices lies a turbulent inner world, now laid bare in Jean Rhys's Letters 1931–1966. Edited by Francis Wyndham and Diana Melly, this curated collection of personal correspondence spans over three decades of Rhys's life — years marked by creative isolation, financial hardship, emotional upheaval, and an extraordinary literary renaissance — presenting an unfiltered portrait of the woman behind masterworks like Wide Sargasso Sea and Good Morning, Midnight.\n\nThe letters chronicle Rhys's singular voice with the same raw intensity and desolate beauty that defines her fiction, revealing her anxieties about writing, her fractured relationships, and her painful sense of displacement as a Creole woman navigating a coldly indifferent European world. Wyndham, who played a pivotal role in Rhys's rediscovery by the literary establishment, and Melly provide sensitive editorial guidance that contextualises each letter within the arc of a remarkable, if bruised, career. For admirers of Rhys's fiction and scholars of modernist literature alike, this collection is an indispensable key to understanding the restless, uncompromising spirit that produced some of the most haunting prose of the modern era — leaving the reader to wonder what other secrets still remain between the lines.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49336820760795,"sku":"2026200016382-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/29159c0a-e323-4a27-95d6-6120909da07a.png?v=1789958930","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016382-secondhand-jean-rhyss-letters-1931-1966","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}