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Voyage in the Dark
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Voyage in the Dark
'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen years old and catapulted to England from the West Indies after the death of her beloved father. Working as a chorus girl, Anna drifts into the demi-monde of Edwardian London.
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A tragic tale of a young woman's descent into isolation and despair, inspired by Jean Rhys's own experiences.
First published in 1934, Voyage in the Dark is the story of an unhappy love affair, a portrait of a hypocritical society, and an exploration of exile and breakdown; all written in Jean Rhys's hauntingly simple and beautiful style.
Eighteen, on her own and independent as much through circumstance as character, Anna has exchanged the West Indies of her childhood for the cold greyness of England, with its narrow streets and narrower rules. As she drifts towards the demi-monde of 1914 London, she comes to realise that life will never be so free and easy again. Her childish dreams have been replaced by the harsher reality of living in a man's world, where all charity has its price.
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys is widely praised for its prescient and technically astonishing narrative, with Geoff Dyer highlighting its remarkable quality. Caryl Phillips describes it as a book worthy of standing applause. Jonathan Raban notes Rhys's unique prose style that defies conventional English social fiction, while Howard Moss admires the effortless truthfulness inherent in her novels.
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ISBN: 9780141183954
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 August 2000
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 9.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 134g
Pages: 176
About the Author
Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1894. After arriving in England aged sixteen, she became a chorus girl and drifted between different jobs before moving to Paris, where she started to write in the late 1920s. She published a story collection and four novels, after which she disappeared from view and lived reclusively for many years. In 1966 she made a sensational comeback with her masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea, written in difficult circumstances over a long period. Rhys died in 1979.
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