'An absolute belter of a biography' MARINA HYDE A Times Literary
Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best Book of the Year
2022 An intimate, revealing and profoundly moving biography of Jean
Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea. An obsessive and
troubled genius, Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling and
unnerving writers of the twentieth century. Memories of a
conflicted Caribbean childhood haunt the four fictions that Rhys
wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and
later in England. Rhys's experiences of heartbreak, poverty,
notoriety, breakdowns and even imprisonment all became grist for
her writing, forming an iconic 'Rhys woman' whose personality -
vulnerable, witty, watchful and angry - was often mistaken, and
still is, for a self-portrait. Many details of Rhys's life emerge
from her memoir, Smile Please and the stories she wrote throughout
her long and challenging career. But it's a shock to discover that
no biographer - until now - has researched the crucial seventeen
years that Rhys spent living on the remote Caribbean island of
Dominica; the island which haunted Rhys's mind and her work for the
rest of her life. Luminous and penetrating, Seymour's biography
reveals a proud and fiercely independent artist, one who
experienced tragedy and extreme poverty, alcohol and drug
dependency, romantic and sexual turmoil - and yet was never a
victim. I Used to Live Here Once enables one of our most excitingly
intuitive biographers to uncover the hidden truth about a
fascinatingly elusive woman. The figure who emerges for Seymour is
powerful, cultured, self-mocking, self-absorbed, unpredictable and
often darkly funny. Persuasive, surprising and compassionate, this
unforgettable biography brings Jean Rhys to life as never before.
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