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The Blue Hour Lilian Pizzichini

The Blue Hour von Lilian Pizzichini

The Blue Hour Lilian Pizzichini


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Zusammenfassung

A dazzling new portrait of Jean Rhys, the troubled, incandescent author of Wide Sargasso Sea. A Radio 4 'Book of the Week'.

The Blue Hour Zusammenfassung

The Blue Hour: A Portrait of Jean Rhys Lilian Pizzichini

Jean Rhys, described by Al Alvarez as 'one of the finest British writers of this century', was an artist of brilliance and fury best known for her late literary masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea. But she was also a woman in constant psychological turmoil, never far from the edge, whose blazing talent rescued her time and time again from the abyss. In The Blue Hour, Lilian Pizzichini enters Rhys's twilit demimonde, starting with her dreamy girlhood in the lush island heat of Dominica and following her vagabond existence from chorus girl to artist's model in cold, inhospitable London, to abandoned wife and hapless mother in bohemian 1920s Paris, through three failed marriages and five misunderstood books to screaming drunk in suburban Beckenham, and finally to feted elderly author who considered her critical acclaim to have 'come too late'. Rhys was made a CBE in 1978, the year before she died. This compelling and heartbreaking biography - the first truly intimate account of Rhys since her unfinished autobiography Smile Please in 1979 - is an unforgettable portrait of a woman whose writing was both her life and her lifeline, and a unique attempt to see the world as Rhys herself saw it: hostile, chaotic, full of flawed humanity and fragile dreams, life experienced through the thinnest of skins.

The Blue Hour Bewertungen

'A wonderful book: exciting and dramatic as narrative, perceptive and original as literary criticism' Francis Wyndham 'This engrossing account of Jean Rhys's painful life is as near as we are likely to get to how Jean saw it herself' Diana Melly 'Extraordinary the way Jean comes to life in this biography, which seems to me to read rather like one of her own novels, as carefully crafted. Jean in her youth appears to be willfully a helpless victim but, as life defeats such willfulness, a woman who rages more and more against her helplessness, and who in old age assumes the stature of a tragic figure, alone, crying out against the night' David Plante

Über Lilian Pizzichini

Lilian Pizzichini has worked for the Literary Review and the Times Literary Supplement. Her first book, Dead Men's Wages, won the 2002 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Non-fiction. Until recently she was writer-in-residence at a prison. She lives in London.

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The Blue Hour: A Portrait of Jean Rhys Lilian Pizzichini
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2009-05-05
336
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