After Leaving Mr Mackenzie
Jean Rhys author Lorna Sage editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Should be back in stock very soon
A brilliant, yet brutal, portrait of a woman struggling to retrieve both life and love, from the author of Wide Sargasso Sea
For six months, Julia has lived alone in a drab Parisian hotel on an allowance from her ex-lover, Mr. Mackenzie. When his cheques stop, Julia decides to leave France and return to London. The tale of her ten day visit contains some of Jean Rhys's most sensitive, poignant writing. Past her prime, exhausted by broken love affairs and addled by drink, Julia is tragically unable to find what she really wants - love.
It is a book that does not invite comparisons. . . . Its excellence is individual, intrinsic; it measures itself against itself * Saturday Review of Literature *
She had an ability to see what others could not, or refused to see, and the guts to write about it -- Christine Pountney * Guardian *
ISBN: 9780141183947
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 12mm
Weight: 134g
176 pages