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092			_aRHYS, J. _bS521
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100	1		_aSeymour, Miranda, _eauthor. _9141716
245	1	0	_aI used to live here once : _bthe haunted life of Jean Rhys / _cMiranda Seymour.
250			_aFirst American edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bW.W. Norton & Company, _c2022.
264		4	_c©2022
300			_axvii, 421 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aWellspring (1890-1907) -- Floggings, school, and sex (1896-1906) -- Stage-struck (1907-13) -- Fact and fiction : a London life (1911-13) -- London in wartime (1913-19) -- A Paris marriage (1919-25) -- "L'affaire Ford" (1924-26) -- Hunger, and hope (1926-28) -- Two tunes : past and present (1929-36) -- A la recherche, or Temps Perdi (1936) -- Good Morning, midnight (1936-39) -- At war with the world (1940-45) -- Beckenham blues (1946-50) -- The lady vanishes (1950-56) -- A house by the sea (1957-60) -- Cheriton Fitzpaine -- The madness of perfection (1960-63) -- An end and a beginning (1964-66) -- No orchids for Miss Rhys (1966-69) -- Rhys in retreat (1967-74) -- "Mrs Methuselah" (1973-76) -- "The old punk upstairs" (1977-79).
520			_a"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 Dominica, remains too little explored, until now. In I Used to Live Here Once, Miranda Seymour sheds new light on the artist whose proud and fiercely solitary life profoundly informed her writing. Rhys experienced tragedy and extreme poverty, alcohol and drug dependency, romantic and sexual turmoil, all of which contributed to the "Rhys woman" of her oeuvre. Today, readers still intuitively relate to her unforgettable characters, vulnerable, watchful, and often alarmingly disaster-prone outsiders; women with a different way of moving through the world. And yet, while her works often contain autobiographical material, Rhys herself was never a victim. The figure who emerges for Seymour is cultured, self-mocking, unpredictable-and shockingly contemporary. Based on new research in the Caribbean, a wealth of never-before-seen papers, journals, letters, and photographs, and interviews with those who knew Rhys, I Used to Live Here Once is a luminous and penetrating portrait of a fascinatingly elusive artist"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aRhys, Jean. _9107677
650		0	_aWomen novelists, English _y20th century _vBiography. _9221615
650		0	_aEnglish literature _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aCaribbean literature (English) _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aDominica literature _xHistory and criticism.
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
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