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Wide Sargasso Sea
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You could be looking for Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys.From the description:
Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress who grew up in the West Indies on a decaying plantation. When she comes of age she is married off to an Englishman, and he takes her away from the only place she has known--a house with a garden where "the paths were overgrown and a smell of dead flowers mixed with the fresh living smell. Underneath the tree ferns, tall as forest tree ferns, the light was green. Orchids flourished out of reach or for some reason not to be touched."
The novel is Rhys's answer to Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë's book had long haunted her, mostly for the story it did not tell--that of the madwoman in the attic, Rochester's terrible secret. Antoinette is Rhys's imagining of that locked-up woman, who in the end burns up the house and herself. Wide Sargasso Sea follows her voyage into the dark, both from her point of view and Rochester's. It is a voyage charged with soul-destroying lust. "I watched her die many times," observes the new husband. "In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the long afternoons when the house was empty."
Thank you! That's it.Wow, that was quite fast.
I love that book! And, in a more frivolous vein, "The Eyre Affair" by Jasper FForde is also quite brilliant.
Wide Sargasso Sea, and everything by Jean Rhys, is BRILLIANT. Just don't watch the bizarrely cheesy-romance movie version!!
There's a cheesy-romance movie of Wide Sargasso Sea? Surely that's not even possible!
I would appreciate it if someone could solve this!