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I USED TO LIVE HERE ONCE - MIRANDA SEYMOUR GEBU...

Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her
Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during
her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England  a body of
fiction-above all  the extraordinary Wide Sargasso Sea-that has a passionate following today.
And yet her own colorful life  including her early years on the Caribbean island of Dominica 
remains too little explored  until now. In I Used to Live Here Once  Miranda Seymour sheds new
light on the artist whose proud and fiercely solitary life profoundly informed her writing.
Rhys experienced tragedy and extreme poverty  alcohol and drug dependency  romantic and sexual
turmoil  all of which contributed to the Rhys woman of her oeuvre. Today  readers still
intuitively relate to her unforgettable characters  vulnerable  watchful  and often alarmingly
disaster-prone outsiders  women with a different way of moving through the world. And yet 
while her works often contain autobiographical material  Rhys herself was never a victim. The
figure who emerges for Seymour is cultured  self-mocking  unpredictable-and shockingly
contemporary. Based on new research in the Caribbean  a wealth of never-before-seen papers 
journals  letters  and photographs  and interviews with those who knew Rhys  I Used to Live
Here Once is a luminous and penetrating portrait of a fascinatingly elusive artist.

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