Jean Rhys: Life and Work
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ISBN: 0316042633 / Publisher: LITTLE, BROWN, May 1991
Traces the life of the British novelist, discusses the influence of her life on her writing, and examines each of her five novels
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The authorized account of the legendary British novelist's life (1890-1979), from her childhood in the British West Indies, to her schooling in England, to her time in Paris in the 1920s where she became involved with Ford Madox Ford, through her three marriages and, finally, her self-destructive alcoholism, revealing how Rhys had the power to transform her own disturbing life into art. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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