Voyage in the Dark (Norton Paperback Fiction)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.73 (650 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393311465 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Four Stars" according to Cliff Knecht. Another excellent book by Jean Rhys!. A Customer said moving, pitiless, beautiful. this is my favourite book of all time. i came across it accidentally in Croydon library when I was "moving, pitiless, beautiful" according to A Customer. this is my favourite book of all time. i came across it accidentally in Croydon library when I was 20 years old, i loved it then, and i love it now, 20 years later. i read other works of hers (and I think she is an amazing writer) and her biography (by Carole Angier - also utterly brilliant and very highly recommended) - but Voyage in the Dark is still my favourite.Why this is is hard to say. There is something about . 0 years old, i loved it then, and i love it now, "moving, pitiless, beautiful" according to A Customer. this is my favourite book of all time. i came across it accidentally in Croydon library when I was 20 years old, i loved it then, and i love it now, 20 years later. i read other works of hers (and I think she is an amazing writer) and her biography (by Carole Angier - also utterly brilliant and very highly recommended) - but Voyage in the Dark is still my favourite.Why this is is hard to say. There is something about . 0 years later. i read other works of hers (and I think she is an amazing writer) and her biography (by Carole Angier - also utterly brilliant and very highly recommended) - but Voyage in the Dark is still my favourite.Why this is is hard to say. There is something about . Liked it, didn't love it Modern lady that I am, it's easy to forget how limited women's options were a hundred years ago—less careers, less independence, more vulnerability. Now I walk by Chanel or Burberry or Dior and I dream of the day my credit limit will satisfy my materialistic heart. But it's still almost as nice thinking about somebody else's credit doing the work for me—preferably someone who looks like Ryan Gosling. So de
When he grows tired of her, she begins a long spiraling decline. Anna falls in love with him, and allows herself to rely on him totally. Her heroine in Voyage in the Dark is Anna Morgan, a young woman in her late teens, relocated to England from her beloved home in the West Indies. She works as a chorus girl, traveling the country to dank boarding rooms and shabby theaters. Alvarez called "the best living English novelist.". Fortune seems to grab her one day in the shape of a wealthy, older man who sets her up in London, calling for her as his needs dictate. Rhys's voice is starkly simple, yet sharp as nails. Autobiographically inspired, Rhys created stories of the slightly adrift every woman looking for an anchor in a cold, hostile landscape. This is poignant, tense writing by the woman whom A
Jean Rhys is such a writer.” (Jonathan Raban)“Prescient and technically astonishing.” (Geoff Dyer - GQ) . “Jean Rhys's novels have the quality of the best books by seeming to have written themselves, and reading them one flinches at truth after truth.” (Howard Moss - The New Yorker)“Every so often someone comes along whose prose style is so alert and fresh, so remote from the mainstream idiom of English social fiction that is seems miraculous that they should be able to write like that and be British too
Mackenzie; Quartet; and The Collected Short Stories. . Jean Rhys (1890–1979) is the author of Good Morning, Midnight; Voyage in the Dark; After Leaving Mr