Good Morning, Midnight
$25.09
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2000
Summary
An unforgettable portrait of a woman bravely confronting loneliness and despair in her quest for self-determination, from the author of Wide Sargasso Sea.
Jean Rhys was a talent before her time with an impressive ability to express the anguish of young, single women. In Good Morning, Midnight, Rhys created the powerfully modern portrait of Sophia Jansen, whose emancipation is far more painful and complicated than she could expect, but whose confession is flecked with…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141183930 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141183934 |
| Author: | Jean Rhys |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2000 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Her eloquence in the language of human sexual transactions is chilling, cynical, and surprisingly moving – A L KennedyNo one who reads Good Morning, Midnight will ever forget it * The New York Times *
About The Author
Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1894. After arriving in England aged sixteen, she became a chorus girl and drifted between different jobs before moving to Paris, where she started to write in the late 1920s. She published a story collection and four novels, after which she disappeared from view and lived reclusively for many years. In 1966 she made a sensational comeback with her masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea, written in difficult circumstances over a long period. Rhys died in 1979.
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