Voyage in the Dark: A Novel

by Jean Rhys

Overview

“Prescient and technically astonishing.” —Geoff Dyer, GQ

Often considered Jean Rhys’s most autobiographical novel, this masterful and moving work follows a chorus girl, Anna, who struggles to adjust to cold and inhospitable England after a childhood in the West Indies. When an affair that at first feels like salvation comes to a disastrous end, Anna begins to unravel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393358124
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	10/27/2020
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	358,572
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jean Rhys (1890–1979), one of the foremost writers of the twentieth century, is the author of Wide Sargasso Sea—her last and best-known novel—as well as After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie, Voyage in the Dark, and Good Morning, Midnight, all available in Norton paperback.

What People are Saying About This

Jonathan Raban

Every so often someone comes along whose prose style is so alert and fresh, so remote from the mainstream idiom of English social fiction that is seems miraculous that they should be able to write like that and be British too. Jean Rhys is such a writer.