Good Morning, Midnight (Penguin Modern Classics) Paperback

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An unforgettable portrait of a woman bravely confronting loneliness & despair in her quest for self-determination Jean Rhys&s Good Morning Midnight

Includes:: an introduction by AL Kennedy in Penguin Modern Classics In 1930s Paris where one cheap hotel room is very like another a young woman is teaching herself indifference She has escaped personal tragedy & has come to France to find courage & seek independence She tells herself to expect nothing especially not kindness least of all from men Tomorrow she resolves she will dye her hair blonde Jean Rhys was a talent before her time with an impressive ability to express the anguish of young single women In Good Morning Midnight Rhys created the powerfully modern portrait of Sophia Jansen whose emancipation is far more painful & complicated than she could expect but whose confession is flecked with triumph & elation One of the most honest & distinctive British novelists of the twentieth century Jean Rhys wrote about women with perception & sensitivity in an innovative & often controversial way Jean Rhys (1894-1979) was born in Dominica Coming to England aged 16 she drifted into various jobs before moving to Paris where she began writing & was &discovered& by Ford Madox Ford Her novels often portraying women as underdogs out to exploit their sexualities were ahead of their time & only modestly successful From 1939 (when Good Morning Midnight was written) onwards she lived reclusively & was largely forgotten when she made a sensational comeback with her account of Jane Eyre&s Bertha Rochester Wide Sargasso Sea in 1966 If you enjoyed Good Morning Midnight you might like Rhys&s Voyage in the Dark also available in Penguin Modern Classics & Her eloquence in the language of human sexual transactions is chilling cynical & surprisingly moving&AL Kennedy