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Jean Rhys: The Collected Short Stories
  • ISBN: 9780141984858
  • Pages: 400
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • Binding: Paperback

Jean Rhys: The Collected Short Stories

Jean Rhys
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Rendered in extraordinarily vivid, honest prose, these stories show Jean Rhys at the height of her literary powers and offer a fascinating counterpoint to her most famous novel, Wide Sargasso Sea.

Some of the most powerful writing from Jean Rhys is to be found in this rich, dark collection of her collected stories. Her fictional world is haunted by her own, painful memories: of cheap hotels and drab Parisian cafes; of devastating love affairs; of her childhood in Dominica; of drifting through European cities, always on the periphery and always perilously close to the abyss.

This volume includes all the stories from her three collections, The Left Bank, Tigers Are Better-Looking and Sleep It Off, Lady.



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