I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

by Miranda Seymour

Book Overview

Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England, a body of fiction--above all, the extraordinary Wide Sargasso Sea--that has a passionate following today. And yet her own colorful life, including her early years on the Caribbean island of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324006129
• ISBN13: 9781324006121
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.0"