Wide Sargasso Sea
Author(s): Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys s return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of fiction s most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Bronte s Jane Eyre. This mesmerizing work introduces us to Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Mr. Rochester. Rhys portrays Cosway amidst a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind.
A new introduction by the award-winning Edwidge Danticat, author most recently of Claire of the Sea Light, expresses the enduring importance of this work. Drawing on her own Caribbean background, she illuminates the setting s impact on Rhys and her astonishing work."
Product Information
General Fields
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- : W. W. Norton
- : W. W. Norton
- : 25 January 2016
- : 21.10 cmmm X 14.00 cmmm X 1.30 cmmm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Jean Rhys
- : Jean Rhys
- : 176
- : 176
- : en
- : en