Good Morning, Midnight: Jean Rhys (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Her everywoman heroine, Sasha, must confront the loves-- and losses-- of her past in this mesmerizing and formally daring psychological portrait. Format: Paperback / softbackISBN: 9780241261408Publish/Release date: August 4, 2016Publisher: Penguin Books LtdNumber of pages: 176Width (mm): 111Height (mm): 181Depth (mm): 10 Standard UK £2. The last of the four novels Jean Rhys wrote in interwar Paris, Good Morning, Midnight is the culmination of a searing literary arc, which established Rhys as an astute observer of human tragedy. Originally published in 1939 and with a new introduction, Good Morning, Midnight portrays Sophia Jansen, a young single woman who, upon arriving in France to flee personal tragedy, seeks to emancipate herself and exploit her sexuality. The good news is you can buy them on The Feminist Bookshop audiobooks page! Interested in audiobooks too? . Set in a 1930s Paris of shabby hotel rooms, seedy bars and drunken encounters, Jean Rhys''s semi-autobiographical portrayal of a young woman''s sexual encounters is a searingly honest exploration of loneliness and yearning.