Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys

£16.99

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If Antoinette Cosway, a spirited Creole heiress, could have forseen the terrible future that awaited her, she would not have married the young Englishman. Initially drawn to her beauty and sensuality, he becomes increasingly frustrated by his inability to reach into her soul.

ISBN: 9780241281901 Category:

Description

One of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World’

A gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys’s great masterpiece of desire and madness in the Caribbean, published for the novel’s fiftieth anniversary.

Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness, and her husband into the arms of another novel’s heroine. This classic study of betrayal, a seminal work of postcolonial literature, is Jean Rhys’s brief, beautiful masterpiece.

‘She took one of the works of genius of the nineteenth century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the twentieth century’
Michele Roberts, The Times

Additional information

Weight 0.302 kg
Dimensions 20.5 × 13.4 × 2.1 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

xxv, 150

Language

English

Edition

Fiftieth anniversary edition

Dewey

823.912 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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