1. Before reading Quartet I only knew one of Rhys's novels: Wide Sargasso Sea, her last big work. Quartet, published nearly forty years earlier, is her first, already featuring some of the recurring themes of her writing, typical reactions and reflections of her characters, a peculiar type of heroin...
bookshelves: radio-4x, re-read, autumn-2012, published-1966, paper-read, colonial-overlords, caribbean-caper, fanfic-writeback Read from January 01, 1972 to October 06, 2012 Really didn't like the book but how much of that was me ::at:that:time:: *shrugs* This is up for grabs at R4x so I'll swing...
Jane Eyre is one of my favourite novels, so I was extremely curious by Wide Sargasso Sea. It’s a compact read at only 129 pages, but explores so much within that space. It’s a fascinating re-imagination of a character without voice; giving her power and a history through her own words and experience...
Jean Rhys, a Creole woman from Dominica, writes back to the racist and ableist strand in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, which painted a woman with the same background as Rhys as a monstrous lunatic, locked away on the third floor of the house. Rhys tells the story of this character from childhood, se...
I had never heard of this book until I started researching books that are considered the best novels of the 20th century. I think I know why I’ve never heard of it. It is not great. Not good even. It started out okay, but it turned into a bunch of rambles that don’t even make much sense. Yes, I...
It's amazing, the power of a book that's read at the right time. The despair of this book seepsin slowly, you're there in the shabby rooms with the statuesque men. You're on the street with her, feeling the glares.
I went into this book with high hopes. Not sure where the problem is - in me or in Jean Rhys, but I was disappointed. First part was good and moody, then the second part was more like meh and I didn`t care much for the last part. The pacing was chaotic, the author`s "voice" boring and I had a hard t...
Published in 1966 by a native of the West Indies, this is a a prequel of a kind to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, telling the story of Rochester's first wife Bertha Mason, the madwoman in the attic: in other words, this is fan fiction. In fact, it's practically the ur-text, the book everyone mentions...
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