Description
A luminous gathering of Jean Rhys’s short fiction, this collection brings together thirty-six stories that move with startling speed between intimacy and unease, glamour and disillusion. Across settings ranging from cafés and studios to prisons and spiritualist séances, Rhys traces the lives of outsiders—women and men on the margins—caught in shifting power dynamics, fragile identities, and the longing to be seen. With her signature clarity and lyrical restraint, she blends realism with moments of dreamlike strangeness, revealing how memory, performance, and desire can both shelter and betray. These stories explore themes of alienation, class and gender, emotional survival, and the thin line between illusion and truth.
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paperback
Penguin Books, Limited
Published Jan 1, 2017
400 pages
ISBN: 9780141984858
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Details
First Published
2017
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Collected Short Stories by Jean Rhys.