Reviews, including those by Lorna Sage
in the Times Literary Supplement, Ann Cornelisen
in the New York Times Book Review, and Michiko Kakutani
in the New York Times, were generally positive. They...
Literary responses
Jean Rhys
Carole Angier
terms this Rhys's sweetest novel, the one that would always be her own favourite.
Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown, 1990.
291
In later life, JR
said herself it was her best and most autobiographical novel: It is the only...
Literary responses
Jean Rhys
Carole Angier
comments that Good Morning, Midnightcontains some of Jean's most intense and powerful writing.
Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown, 1990.
384
It is, she says, the greatest of her first four books. It is as if she has written...
Reception
Jean Rhys
Interest in JR
's life continues, much of it linked to her lengthy disappearance from public view and her rediscovery. Carole Angier
published a scholarly biography in 1990. Polly Teale
's dramatization of her late-life...
Textual Features
Jean Rhys
According to Carole Angier
, this novel turns on Jean's oldest and deepest fear: that behind everything something opposite and horrible is hidden.
Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown, 1990.
377
But Rhys gives this notion a new face, by making it...
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Texts
Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys. Viking, 1985.
Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown, 1990.