{"product_id":"2026200017054-secondhand-after-leaving-mr-mackenzie","title":"After Leaving Mr Mackenzie","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the rain-soaked cafés of Paris and the grey, unforgiving streets of London, a woman teeters on the edge of ruin — and After Leaving Mr Mackenzie is her unflinching confession. Julia Martin, newly cut off from the allowance of her former lover Mr Mackenzie, finds herself adrift in a world that offers women like her little mercy, running from Paris to London in a desperate search for connection, money, and something she can barely name — perhaps love, perhaps simply survival.\n\nJean Rhys, one of the twentieth century's most bracingly honest chroniclers of female precarity, writes with a spare, melancholic precision that cuts to the bone. This 1931 novel anticipates the themes she would later perfect in Wide Sargasso Sea — alienation, economic vulnerability, and the invisibility of women who dare to age and to need — presenting a portrait of womanhood so raw it still unsettles. For readers who have never encountered Rhys, Julia's story is an ideal and devastating introduction; for those already acquainted, it is an essential piece of a singular literary vision.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49269355708635,"sku":"2026200017054-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/d81d098c-2311-4290-ac1c-6caaab983bdc.png?v=1788999347","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200017054-secondhand-after-leaving-mr-mackenzie","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}