A View of the Empire at Sunset

by Caryl Phillips

Book Overview

Award-winning author Caryl Phillips presents a biographical novel of the life of Jean Rhys, the author of Wide Sargasso Sea, which she wrote as a prequel to Charlotte Bront?'s Jane Eyre.

Caryl Phillips's A View of the Empire at Sunset is the sweeping story of the life of the woman who became known to the world as Jean Rhys. Born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams in Dominica at the height of the British Empire, Rhys...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374283613
• ISBN13: 9780374283612
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.4"