Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140028781
- ISBN 13
- 9780140028782
- Seller
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About This Item
Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1968. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Pages tanned. Light reading and shelfwear to covers. Not from a library. 160 pages.
Antoinette Cosway is a Creole heiress - product of an inbred, decadent, expatriate community - a sensitive girl at once beguiled and repelled by the lush Jamaican landscape. Soon after her marriage to Rochester rumours of madness in the Cosway family poison Rochester's mind against her.
Synopsis
Wide Sargasso Sea, first published in 1966, is the book for which author Jean Rhys is most known. The feminist and postcolonial novel, which explores power dynamics between men and women in a patriarchal society, was Jean Rhys's brilliant comeback to the literary stage after over a 20-year absence. Following the publication of Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys produced several more novels, short stories, and other manuscripts before her death in 1979. Wide Sargasso Sea was written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, from the point of view of Antoinette Cosway, Mr. Rochester’s wife. A Creole heiress from Jamaica, Antoinette’s life story is revealed in three parts–the first focusing on her youth in Jamaica, the second her honeymoon with Mr. Rochester in Dominica, and the third and final focusing on the time she is confined in the attic of Mr. Rochester’s house in England after he declares her mad. The tension Rhys builds between the two prominent cultures and the two prominent characters in her novel creates a poignant and plaintive atmosphere that haunts readers’ minds.
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- Bookseller
- Books of the World (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000001574
- Title
- Wide Sargasso Sea
- Author
- Jean Rhys
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140028781
- ISBN 13
- 9780140028782
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- Harmondsworth, Middlesex, E
- Date Published
- 1968
- Pages
- 160
- Size
- 12mo
- Keywords
- fiction, British, Caribbean, West Indies, Jamaica
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Britain; Caribbean; Domestic and Family Fiction;
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