Rhys, Jean (Vol. 2) - Rhys, Jean 1894–
Rhys, Jean 1894–
A West Indian-born author, now living in England, Miss Rhys is a novelist and short story writer. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 25-28.)
"Good Morning, Midnight" was first published in England in 1939 and has now been reissued in connection with the rediscovery of Jean Rhys. Although the scene of the novel is Paris in the early thirties, it is not a period piece. It is a classic, as alive today as when it was written.
The book is the first-person narrative of Sasha Jansen, a woman in her forties reaching the end of the line in a chain of emotional crackups. Living on a tiny remittance after having been down and nearly out in London and Paris, Sasha reviews her past in brilliantly evoked impressions, and faces the future in a recession of dismal encounters. Memories of love, desertion and death slosh around in consciousness, together with sordid images of her present-day existence in cheap hotels….
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