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    <body><![CDATA[By random chance I was given a collection of Jean Rhys' novels and, with limited options while traveling, I read three of them.  They are very good but tremendously depressing.  Each one follows the same basic arc: a vague, shiftless, but nice enough girl finds herself falling deeply in love with a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48227080">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a topic of interest for me generally (the remorseless deterioration of a young woman in class-paralyzed early-20th century England), but Rhys seduced with the quiet intensity of her voice. Her writing is unsentimental, subversive, and loaded with submerged power. She also sparks, takes risks, oc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39804589">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[	Random House assembled a board of writers and scholars to list the hundred best English-language novels of the twentieth century.  Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea made the list.  Oddly, I’d never heard of the book or the author.  So when I ran across her novel Voyage in the Dark in a library book ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63971220">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What a tiny little sad book.  It's so full of awfulness I don't know if it could be any longer. A young and lonely woman is trapped in England in the 1930's, trying to be a chorus girl.  She falls in love with an older man who gives her a lot of money and then leaves her (letting her know this by se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53829295">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Do yourself a favor. Go beyond _Sargasso Sea_. All about the early 20th century parts of Paris &amp; London no one wrote about--the drab parlors, the flower ladies, the bedsits, the artists' cafes, the young women punished cruelly just for having sex...C'mon, read it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved this tragic tale so much of a white Other from the West Indies but stuck in England that I decided to write a paper on it her subaltern inability to speak and the paradox of her whiteness keeping her from entering into white society because she has been tainted by black culture.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I love 'Wide Sargasso Sea' slightly more, but this, all the same, struck a chord with me and kept me up many a night reading, utterly bewitched. Yes, 'Voyage in the Dark' is depressing, yes it is dark and uneasy, but that is its beauty. And I understood it very well. Anybody who has felt emp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57965529">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Every woman should read Jean Rhys. Voyage in the Dark is loosely autobiographical.  Rhys was born in the Caribbean but because of some family drama had to move to England to live with a relative.  Voyage in the dark uses this theme of contrast (hot/cold, light/dark) as it tells the struggle of a you...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12914345">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was one of those books that describes exactly how I feel sometimes--emotionless, waiting for time to pass, etc. It reminded me of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm having a terrible time with Rhys.  <em>Wide Sargasso Sea</em> also presented a problem. The writing is beautiful, but the actual story doesn't grab me.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty grim, reads almost like a prequel to the brilliant <em>After Leaving Mr Mackenzie<em>.  The best parts are the flickerings of colonial consciousness.</em></em>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel like Jean Rhys and I were cut from the same cloth.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[recommended as one of best books on immigrant life (in WSJ)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good Morning, Midnight is much better.  Nonetheless, it's still filled with all the self-debasement and urban malaise characteristic of Rhys' early work. Critics like to chomp on this one more because it invites post-colonial readings, but if you have never read Rhys, go with GM,M or her most lauded...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3145571">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The book reminded me of Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre, though I think this one goes a bit deeper than both. It is a sad, beautiful book. Rhys really took to me to this hopeless place, she made me feel it! I love the way she writes - vague and chaotic - the story comes across as Anna experiences it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73181175">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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