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Smile Please | Jean Rhys
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Jean Rhys wrote this autobiography in her old age, now the celebrated author of Wide Sargasso Sea but still haunted by memories of her troubled past: her precarious jobs on chorus lines and relationships with unsuitable men, her enduring sense of isolation and her decision at last to become a writer. From the early days on Dominica to the bleak time in England, living in bedsits on gin and little else, to Paris with her first husband, this is a lasting memorial to a unique artist.
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Smile Please | Jean Rhys
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Today is the birth date of one of my all-time favorites, Jean Rhys. I was exposed to her my junior year of college in my Modernist fiction course, and I am transported back to that time when I read her. Her writing is concise and packed with intensity. Predatory relationships, race, agency, depression, and alcoholism. Fear and distrust depicted so well.

LindaLappin I love the Brassai photo on the cover 3y
Michael_Gee @LindaLappin This edition has a Brassai photo before each of her novels. It is such a good pairing! 3y
LindaLappin @Michael_Gee I agree! I waited 3 hrs in the rain a few years ago to see a Brassai exhibit at the Hotel de Ville - and it was worth the wait. 3y
Michael_Gee @LindaLappin oh that sounds so worth it! 3y
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