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Voyage in the Dark

Jean Rhys Carole Angier

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English
Penguin
19 September 2000
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 Her childish dreams have been replaced by the harsher reality of living in a man's world, where all charity has its price.
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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 9mm
Weight:   134g
ISBN:   9780141183954
ISBN 10:   0141183950
Series:   Penguin Modern Classics
Pages:   176
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1894. Coming to England aged 16, she drifted into various jobs before starting to write in the late 1920's. Her novels, often portraying women as underdogs out to exploit their sexualities, were ahead of their timeand only modestly successful. Partly autobiographical, VOYAGE IN THE DARK was first published in 1934. From 1939 she lived reclusively, and was largely forgotten when she made a sensational comeback with 'Wide Sargasso Sea' in 1966. She died in 1979.

Reviews for Voyage in the Dark

Watch your market here. It's a book which depends for its values on the effectiveness of the handling of a difficult subject, and the subject will throw it out for your conservative customers. The story of a girl luxuriously brought up in the West Indies, who is cast adrift, with no training for building her own life, in England, and who slips, almost inevitably, into the sordid life of a prostitute. Not quite so clear cut as After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie (her best known book here), but realism well above average. (Kirkus Reviews)


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