Quartet

Type

Book

Authors

Jean Rhys

ISBN 10

0140036105

ISBN 13

9780140036107

Tags

Fiction, Classics, Cultural, France, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Womens, Female Authors

Description

Set in a superficially romantic, between-wars Paris, QUARTET is a poignant tale of a lonely woman. Set against a background of winter-wet streets, Pernod in smoky cafes and cheap hotel rooms with mauve- flowered wallpaper, Marya tries to make something substantial of her life in order to withstand the unreality of her surroundings. Alone, her Polish husband in prison, she is taken up by an English couple who slowly overwhelm her with their passions. Jean Rhys's first novel is both poignant anddisturbingly intimate in its vivid depiction of a woman on her own. - from Amzon

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