I used to live here once : the haunted life of Jean Rhys

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Label

I used to live here once : the haunted life of Jean Rhys

Title remainder

the haunted life of Jean Rhys

Statement of responsibility

Miranda Seymour

Creator

• Seymour, Miranda

Author

• Seymour, Miranda

Subject

• Rhys, Jean
• Women novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography
• Biographies
• Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography

Genre

• Biographies
• Biography

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

Has edition

• I used to live here once

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

NjBwBT

Dewey number

• 813/.912
• B

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

PR6035.H96

LC item number

Z863 2022

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult