Lilian Pizzichini

The Blue Hour
A Portrait of Jean Rhys (Bloomsbury Lives of Women)
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"Pizzichini's book – more a 'portrait' of Rhys than a full-blown biography – largely achieves its aim: to 'present the fact of Rhys’s life in such a way that the reader is left with an impression of what it was like to have lived such a life.' In other words, it’s a fittingly and fascinatingly Rhysian approach."

– Los Angeles Times

"...pacy, sharp-witted and sympathetic. It vividly evokes the locales that enthralled Rhys — Dominica, bohemian Paris. All [Rhys’s] novels are now in Penguin Modern Classics, and Pizzichini has written a study that is worthy of them. Which is saying a lot."

– Sunday Times

"Pizzichini conjures a childhood of fear (not only of lizards and cockroaches, but of abandonment) and an adulthood of failed marriages and books until her late triumph. And Pizzichini's greatest achievement is turning us from the problematic life to the powerful literature."

– The Independent

"Pizzichini's book – more a 'portrait' of Rhys than a full-blown biography – largely achieves its aim: to 'present the fact of Rhys’s life in such a way that the reader is left with an impression of what it was like to have lived such a life.' In other words, it’s a fittingly and fascinatingly Rhysian approach."

– Los Angeles Times

"...pacy, sharp-witted and sympathetic. It vividly evokes the locales that enthralled Rhys — Dominica, bohemian Paris. All [Rhys’s] novels are now in Penguin Modern Classics, and Pizzichini has written a study that is worthy of them. Which is saying a lot."

– Sunday Times

Jean Rhys 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, whose blazing talent rescued her time and time again from the abyss. Lilian Pizzichini follows Rhys from her girlhood in Dominica, through three failed marriages and five misunderstood books, up to her death in 1979. This is an unforgettable portrait of a woman whose writing was both her life and her lifeline.

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