Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
Antoinette Cosway is a Creole heiress - product of an inbred, decadent, expatriate community - a sensitive girl at once beguiled and repelled by the lush Jamaican landscape. Soon after her marriage to Rochester rumours of madness in the Cosway family poison Rochester's mind against her.
Posted by KateT (1 year ago ) Agree! 'Sargasso Sea' is a gorgeous, richly textured read, and I like to think Charlotte Bronte would have approved. I can't imagine that Margaret Mitchell would have endorsed any aspect of 'Scarlett' - the ghastly sequel to 'Gone With the Wind' penned a decade or so ago. As far as I can remember, 'Scarlett' was commissioned, so the book was inspired by glittering venality rather than any glittering muse. Never a good idea...
Posted by Avocatore (1 year ago ) This is pretty much the only different-athour sequel/prequel I've read (of a novel written within the last three hundred years) that I can stomach. Rhys conjours a stifling atmosphere in which the characters drown beneath racial tension, corruption, humidity and mental decay.
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