Till September Petronella (Mini Modern Classics)

Author: Jean Rhys

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  • : 2.50 AUD
  • : 9780241337585
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  • : February 2018
  • : 161mm X 111mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : February 2018
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Barcode 9780241337585
9780241337585

Description

I knew he was imagining a really lovely girl - all curves, curls, heart and hidden claws.'

In stories that span the course of a lifetime - from childhood in the Caribbean to adolescent modelling in Paris; and from lonely adulthood to old age and beyond - here are women adrift, at sea, down but not quite out.

Author description

Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1894. After arriving in England aged sixteen, she became a chorus girl and drifted between different jobs before moving to Paris, where she started to write in the late 1920s. She published a story collection and four novels, after which she disappeared from view and lived reclusively for many years. In 1966 she made a sensational comeback with her masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea, written in difficult circumstances over a long period. Rhys died in 1979.