Quartet

By:

Rhys, Jean

Publication details: London Andre Deutsch 1969Description: 186p. 21cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0233960503
9780233960500

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Fiction.

Additional physical formats: Quartet.DDC classification:

F Rhy

LOC classification:

PZ3.R3494 Qu6 PR6035.H96

Available additional physical forms:

Also issued online.

Summary: Living in Paris with her reckless, vagabond husband Stephan, Marya is very near to being happy. She enjoys their haphazard existence, never questioning how he lives, never wanting to know the truth. When Stephan is suddenly imprisoned she is left penniless and alone. Taken up by a sophisticated English couple, the Heidlers, who gradually overwhelm her with their own desires, Marya finds her sense of reality slipping further and further away. Set against a background of winter-wet streets and smoke-filled caf es, Jean Rhys's first novel is both poignant and disturbingly intimate in its vivid depiction of a woman on her own.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	National Library of Jamaica	Daphne Douglas Reading Room	F Rhy (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	1000000008571
Books	OCLC Data	Rare Books Floor		Available	0000000000148
Books	OCLC Data	Rare Books Floor		Available	0000000000346

Originally published as Postures. London, Chatto & Windus, 1928.

Living in Paris with her reckless, vagabond husband Stephan, Marya is very near to being happy. She enjoys their haphazard existence, never questioning how he lives, never wanting to know the truth. When Stephan is suddenly imprisoned she is left penniless and alone. Taken up by a sophisticated English couple, the Heidlers, who gradually overwhelm her with their own desires, Marya finds her sense of reality slipping further and further away. Set against a background of winter-wet streets and smoke-filled caf es, Jean Rhys's first novel is both poignant and disturbingly intimate in its vivid depiction of a woman on her own.

Also issued online.

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