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The collected short stories / Jean Rhys.
By: Rhys, Jean.
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BookSeries: Penguin modern classics: Publisher: London : Penguin Classics, 2017Description: Paperback 20 cm.ISBN: 9780141984858 (pbk.) :; 0141984856 (pbk.) :.Genre/Form: General. | Short Stories.Summary: Some of Jean Rhys's most powerful writing is to be found in this rich, dark collection of her collected stories. Her fictional world is haunted by her own, painful memories: of cheap hotels and drab Parisian cafes; of devastating love affairs; of her childhood in Dominica; of drifting through European cities, always on the periphery and always perilously close to the abyss. Rendered in extraordinarily vivid, honest prose, these stories show Rhys at the height of her literary powers and offer a fascinating counterpoint to her most famous novel, 'Wide Sargasso Sea'.
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| Adult fiction book | Stockton Heath Library General fiction | FICTION (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34143110176573 |
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Some of Jean Rhys's most powerful writing is to be found in this rich, dark collection of her collected stories. Her fictional world is haunted by her own, painful memories: of cheap hotels and drab Parisian cafes; of devastating love affairs; of her childhood in Dominica; of drifting through European cities, always on the periphery and always perilously close to the abyss. Rendered in extraordinarily vivid, honest prose, these stories show Rhys at the height of her literary powers and offer a fascinating counterpoint to her most famous novel, 'Wide Sargasso Sea'.