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Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys

Start date: May 1, 2015

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Jan 21, 2010 Wilhelmina Jenkins rated it liked it

Shelves: novel

Perhaps I am hopelessly American. This book was beautifully written, dream-like, lush. The sense of the intrusion of the natural world and of danger was almost overwhelming - the insects, the decay, the overpowering scent of flowers, fire. What I couldn't get a grip on was the people. I don't have a good feel for the culture, especially the hostility, nastiness and cruelty that so many seemed to feel toward Antoinette and her family. These people were blown about like leaves in the wind. Were th ...more

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Mar 12, 2009 Kathy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: x-feb-09-thru-jan-10, read-non-mystery-fiction

Having read The Eyre Affair (q. v.), and already familiar with Jane Eyre, I felt compelled to venture into Rhys' "biography" of the first Mrs. Rochester. I do enjoy these behind-the-scenes explorations, like Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Gildenstern..., and the inclusion of several critical essays in this edition gave the novel additional depth that I surely would have missed. ...more

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