- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (26 Jun 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140189831
- ISBN-13: 978-0140189834
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 295,991 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Antoinette Cosway is a Creole heiress, the product of an inbred, decadent, expatriate community, a 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 his mind against her.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Great novels should subvert certain traditions and conventions and Wide Sargasso Sea certainly does that. It provides the voice of 'the other', the unknowable mad wife, Bertha in Jane Eyre. Rhys' response to Jane Eyre is to provide us with a haunting, unnerving account of Antoinette, Bertha's real name. It has no chapter division and moves from one narrative voice to another without warning. This supports the overall theme of displacement and dreams. The issues of race and gender are accurately portrayed as more complex than black and white, male and female. Slavery and freedom are highlighted not just in the emancipation act but also in asking us who are now the real slaves, the former slave owners. Much of the character description is given through Antoinette's stream of consciousness and dialogue which must have been a shock to its English audience in the sixties when people were not that well-travelled. Overall, from its opening page providing hints of a dark past and a possibly thwarted future to its Thelma and Louise like ending this book holds us in suspense and makes us rethink assumptions held by many to this day.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I thoroughly enjoyed reading Wide Sargasso Sea. I especially appreciated the introduction which helped with the understanding of the book. Also the notes at the back helped and made the book more relevant and enjoyable, especially the explanations of the Creole words etc
I was surprised to find I enjoyed the book - it is very well written and (due to the shortness of the book) did not take long to read.
The book was selected as the current read in my reading group. I suppose it is really a prequel to Jane Eyre. However as a book the story stands on its own merit and it would not really matter if the reader had not read Jane Eyre. However it has made me want to read Jane Eyre again.
Anyway I would recommend it to anyone who enjoyed Jane Eyre as much as I did. It was my favourite classic when I was at school.
I was surprised to find I enjoyed the book - it is very well written and (due to the shortness of the book) did not take long to read.
The book was selected as the current read in my reading group. I suppose it is really a prequel to Jane Eyre. However as a book the story stands on its own merit and it would not really matter if the reader had not read Jane Eyre. However it has made me want to read Jane Eyre again.
Anyway I would recommend it to anyone who enjoyed Jane Eyre as much as I did. It was my favourite classic when I was at school.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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If you did read Jane Eyre, you must be interested in Bertha Mason's story. Was she really crazy? And how did she end up in that attic? A beautiful story about prejudice, against race and gender, and the fragility of women. About what misunderstandings can do. One of my favourite books. Read it!
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