Good Morning, Midnight
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: Previous owner
A landmark of modernist fiction, Good Morning, Midnight chronicles the melancholy return of Sasha Jansen to Paris, a city saturated with painful memories of love, loss, and humiliation. Written in a fragmented, stream-of-consciousness style, the novel presents the inner world of a middle-aged woman adrift in the 1930s, numbing herself with alcohol as she wanders the city's cafés and cheap hotels. Jean Rhys illustrates with unflinching precision the experience of female alienation and economic precarity, capturing the quiet violence of a society that renders certain women invisible. The tone is at once lyrical and bleak, suffused with a dark, sardonic wit that transforms Sasha's despair into something achingly beautiful. Widely regarded as one of the most powerful works of the twentieth century, it stands as a devastating portrait of a woman on the margins, refusing — even in her ruin — to be entirely extinguished.
Author: Jean Rhys
Format: Hardback
Published: 1967, Andre Deutsch
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: Previous owner
A landmark of modernist fiction, Good Morning, Midnight chronicles the melancholy return of Sasha Jansen to Paris, a city saturated with painful memories of love, loss, and humiliation. Written in a fragmented, stream-of-consciousness style, the novel presents the inner world of a middle-aged woman adrift in the 1930s, numbing herself with alcohol as she wanders the city's cafés and cheap hotels. Jean Rhys illustrates with unflinching precision the experience of female alienation and economic precarity, capturing the quiet violence of a society that renders certain women invisible. The tone is at once lyrical and bleak, suffused with a dark, sardonic wit that transforms Sasha's despair into something achingly beautiful. Widely regarded as one of the most powerful works of the twentieth century, it stands as a devastating portrait of a woman on the margins, refusing — even in her ruin — to be entirely extinguished.