Smile Please

Smile Please

by Jean Rhys
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 03/11/2016

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Jean Rhys wrote this autobiography in her old age, now the celebrated author of Wide Sargasso Sea but still haunted by memories of her troubled past: her precarious jobs on chorus lines and relationships with unsuitable men, her enduring sense of isolation and her decision at last to become a writer. From the early days on Dominica to the bleak time in England, living in bedsits on gin and little else, to Paris with her first husband, this is a lasting memorial to a unique artist.

ISBN:
9780241285558
9780241285558
Category:
Biography: literary
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
03-11-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1894. Coming to England aged 16, she drifted into various jobs before starting to write in Paris in the late '20s. After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie was written in 1930.

Her early novels, often portraying women as underdogs out to exploit their sexualities, were ahead of their time and only modestly successful.

From 1939 onwards she lived reclusively, and was largely forgotten when she made a sensational comeback with Wide Sargasso Sea in 1966. She died in 1979.

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