Wide Sargasso Sea

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This â€œtour de forceâ€ (New York Times Book Review) celebrates its 50th anniversary. Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhysâ€™s return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of fictionâ€™s most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte BrontÃ«â€™s Jane Eyre. This mesmerizing work introduces us to Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Mr. Rochester. 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. 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. Drawing on her own Caribbean background, she illuminates the settingâ€™s impact on Rhys and her astonishing work.

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