Wide Sargasso Sea , a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys\'s return to the literary center stage.
Drawing on her own Caribbean background, she illuminates the setting\'s impact on Rhys and her astonishing work..
A new introduction by the award-winning Edwidge Danticat, author most recently of Claire of the Sea Light , expresses the enduring importance of this work.
Rhys portrays Cosway amidst a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind.
Rochester.
This mesmerizing work introduces us to Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Mr.
With Wide Sargasso Sea , her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of fiction\'s most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Bront \'s Jane Eyre .
She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters.
Wide Sargasso Sea , a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys\'s return to the literary center stage
