The Resource I used to live here once : the haunted life of Jean Rhys, Miranda Seymour
I used to live here once : the haunted life of Jean Rhys, Miranda Seymour
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- Summary
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- A biography of the author of Wide Sargasso Sea examines her early years in the Caribbean as well as how her experiences with extreme poverty, alcohol, and drug dependency informed her writing
- Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England, a body of fiction--above all, the extraordinary Wide Sargasso Sea--that has a passionate following today. And yet her own colorful life, including her early years on the Caribbean island of Dominica, remains too little explored, until now. In I Used to Live Here Once, Miranda Seymour sheds new light on the artist whose proud and fiercely solitary life profoundly informed her writing. Rhys experienced tragedy and extreme poverty, alcohol and drug dependency, romantic and sexual turmoil, all of which contributed to the "Rhys woman" of her oeuvre. Today, readers still intuitively relate to her unforgettable characters, vulnerable, watchful, and often alarmingly disaster-prone outsiders; women with a different way of moving through the world. And yet, while her works often contain autobiographical material, Rhys herself was never a victim. The figure who emerges for Seymour is cultured, self-mocking, unpredictable--and shockingly contemporary
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Extent
- xvii, 421 pages
- Isbn
- 9781324006121
- Label
- I used to live here once : the haunted life of Jean Rhys
- Title
- I used to live here once
- Title remainder
- the haunted life of Jean Rhys
- Statement of responsibility
- Miranda Seymour
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- A biography of the author of Wide Sargasso Sea examines her early years in the Caribbean as well as how her experiences with extreme poverty, alcohol, and drug dependency informed her writing
- Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England, a body of fiction--above all, the extraordinary Wide Sargasso Sea--that has a passionate following today. And yet her own colorful life, including her early years on the Caribbean island of Dominica, remains too little explored, until now. In I Used to Live Here Once, Miranda Seymour sheds new light on the artist whose proud and fiercely solitary life profoundly informed her writing. Rhys experienced tragedy and extreme poverty, alcohol and drug dependency, romantic and sexual turmoil, all of which contributed to the "Rhys woman" of her oeuvre. Today, readers still intuitively relate to her unforgettable characters, vulnerable, watchful, and often alarmingly disaster-prone outsiders; women with a different way of moving through the world. And yet, while her works often contain autobiographical material, Rhys herself was never a victim. The figure who emerges for Seymour is cultured, self-mocking, unpredictable--and shockingly contemporary
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- NjBwBT
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Seymour, Miranda
- Dewey number
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- 813/.912
- B
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR6035.H96
- LC item number
- Z863 2022
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Rhys, Jean
- Women novelists, English
- Novelists, English
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- I used to live here once : the haunted life of Jean Rhys, Miranda Seymour
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-392) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1331441011
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Extent
- xvii, 421 pages
- Isbn
- 9781324006121
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1331441011
- Label
- I used to live here once : the haunted life of Jean Rhys, Miranda Seymour
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-392) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1331441011
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Extent
- xvii, 421 pages
- Isbn
- 9781324006121
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1331441011
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