Wide Sargasso Sea

by Jean Rhys, Francis Wyndham

Overview

"A considerable tour de force by any standard."—?New York Times Book ReviewJean Rhys's reputation was made upon the publication of this passionate and heartbreaking novel, in which she brings into the light one of fiction's most mysterious characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.Set in the Caribbean, its heroine is Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Rochester. In this best-selling novel, Rhys portrays a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393308808
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	08/01/1982
Series:	Norton Paperback Fiction Ser.
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	189
Sales rank:	433,306
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Jean Rhys (1890–1979) is the author of Good Morning,
Midnight; Voyage in the Dark; After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie;
Quartet; and The Collected Short Stories.

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Editorial Reviews

The novel is a triumph of atmosphere—of what one is tempted to call Caribbean Gothic atmosphere…It has an almost hallucinatory quality.

New York Times

Working a stylistic range from moody introspection to formal elegance, Miss Rhys has us traveling under Antoinette's skin. It is an eerie and memorable trip.

The Nation

The distillation of [Rhys's] life and craft… Nowhere is her prose more supple, more assured.

Sara Paretsky - “You Must Read This

A considerable tour de force by any standard… A triumph of atmosphere.

New York Times Book Review