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Good Morning, Midnight

By Jean Rhys
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Good Morning, Midnight is the final novel Jean Rhys wrote in interwar Paris, presenting a poignant and innovative psychological portrait of Sasha, an everywoman heroine. As she navigates the shadows of her past loves and profound losses, the novel captures the sharp and melancholic observations of human tragedy that mark Rhys's literary mastery.
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“As sharp and lucent and alarming as a piece of broken crystal.”— Deborah Eisenberg, author of Your Duck Is My Duck

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The last of the four novels Jean Rhys wrote in interwar Paris, Good Morning, Midnight is the culmination of a searing literary arc, which established Rhys as an astute observer of human tragedy.

Her everywoman heroine, Sasha, must confront the loves—and losses—of her past in this mesmerizing and formally daring psychological portrait.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780393357806

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 March 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Contributors:

  • Introduction by Leslie Jamison

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 211.0mm

Weight: 202g

Pages: 224

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About the Author

Jean Rhys (1890–1979), one of the foremost writers of the twentieth century, is the author of Wide Sargasso Sea—her last and best-known novel—as well as After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie, Voyage in the Dark, and Good Morning, Midnight, all available in Norton paperback.

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