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Review: Zoë Heller on Jean Rhys

Review: Zoë Heller on Jean Rhys

Aug 02, 2022
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Jean Rhys, who produced some of the most distinctive, exquisitely controlled prose of the twentieth century, led a mostly wretched life, plagued by penury, disaster, and her own demons. Her first child died of pneumonia at the age of three weeks while Rhys was out drinking champagne, and her second child grew up in a series of orphanages and children’s …

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