After Leaving Mr. MacKenzie. - Hardcover

Jean Rhys

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006080579X ISBN 13: 9780060805791

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1973

Synopsis

Now leaving her last lover, a once-beautiful woman is running out of luck and chances. A visit to London to see her ailing mother and distrustful sister brings her stark life into full focus. A masterful and terrifying tale from one of the truest voices in 20th-century fiction.

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About the Author

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.

Review

An artistic success.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 006080579X
• ISBN 13: 9780060805791
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192