A View of the Empire at Sunset

✍ Scribed by Caryl Phillips

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 192 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0374718504

✦ Synopsis

**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 Brontë'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 lived in the Caribbean for only sixteen years before going to England. A View of the Empire at Sunset is a look into her tempestuous and unsatisfactory life in Edwardian England, 1920s Paris, and then again in London. Her dream had always been to one day return home to Dominica. In 1936, a forty-five-year-old Rhys was finally able to make the journey back to the Caribbean. Six weeks later, she boarded a ship for England, filled with hostility for her home, never to return. Phillips's gripping new novel is equally a story about the...