Wide Sargasso Sea Rhys Jean
Wide Sargasso Sea Rhys Jean A gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys's great masterpiece of desire and madness in the Caribbean, published for the novel's fiftieth anniversary. After their…
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Wide Sargasso Sea Rhys Jean
A gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys's great masterpiece of desire and madness in the Caribbean, published for the novel's fiftieth anniversary. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her. Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality.
This classic study of betrayal, a seminal work of postcolonial literature, is Jean Rhys's brief, beautiful masterpiece. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness, and her husband into the arms of another novel's heroine. This anniversary edition includes a new appendix featuring letters, photographs and manuscript pages from the novel's first publication in 1966.
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