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Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1894. After arriving in England aged sixteen, she became a chorus girl and drifted between different jobs before moving to Paris, where she started to write in the late 1920s. She published a story collection and four novels, after which she disappeared from view and lived reclusively for many years. In 1966 she made a sensational comeback with her masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea, written in difficult circumstances over a long period. Rhys died in 1979.
This book fully exhibits Rhys's extraordinary talent for prose * Independent * She is the novelist of longing and yearning and rage and sexual desire ... One of the twentieth-century greats -- Linda Grant The force of her stories lies in the fusion of elegant prose with an uncanny penetration into the darker reaches of the soul * Washington Post * Includes some of the best British short stories of the last century ... You hear her voice speaking directly to you; her reality is your reality * Guardian *
