Many details of Rhys’ life emerge from her memoir, Smile Please and the stories she wrote throughout her long and challenging career. Rhys’ experiences of heartbreak, poverty, notoriety, breakdowns and even imprisonment all became grist for her writing, forming an iconic ‘Rhys woman’ whose personality-vulnerable, witty, watchful and angry-was often mistaken, and still is, for a self-portrait. Memories of a conflicted Caribbean childhood haunt the four fictions that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England.
Īn obsessive and troubled genius, Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling and unnerving writers of the 20th century. A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022Īn intimate, revealing and profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea.
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