The fortieth anniversary reissue of the best-selling "tour de force" (Walter Allen, New York Times Book Review).Jean Rhys's reputation was made upon the publication of this passionate and heartbreaking novel, in which she brings into the light one of fiction's most mysterious characters: the madwoma
Wide Sargasso Sea
- Year
- 2011
- Category
- Fiction
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