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by Jean Rhys (Author), Lorna Sage (Introduction)
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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics; New Ed edition (3 Aug 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141183942
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141183947
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 25,896 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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After Leaving Mr Mackenzie is a brilliant, yet brutal, portrait of a woman struggling to retrieve both life and love. For six months, Julia has lived alone in a drab Parisian hotel on an allowance from her ex-lover, Mr. Mackenzie. When his cheques stop, Julia decides to leave France and return to London. The tale of her ten day visit contains some of Jean Rhys's most sensitive, poignant writing. Past her prime, exhausted by broken love affairs and addled by drink, Julia is tragically unable to find what she really wants - love.


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Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1894. Coming to England aged 16, she drifted into various jobs before starting to write in Paris in the late '20s. 'AFTER LEAVING MR. MACKENZIE' was written in 1930. Her early novels, often portraying women as underdogs out to exploit their sexualities, were ahead of their time and only modestly successful. From 1939 onwards she lived reclusively, and was largely forgotten when she made a sensational comeback with 'Wide Sargasso Sea' [1966]. She died in 1979.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Very moving and rather unsettling., 24 Oct 2001
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The overwhelming impression from this book is of the powerlessness of the central character, Julia, and her total reliance on the charity of others, especially men. It has a very true to life feel that I haven't come across before in novels. The introdcution by Lorna Sage is a bonus. Thought-provoking and slightly disturbing, but well worth reading. A good point to start reading this intriguing author.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Female Outsider, 3 Oct 2008
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It's difficult to believe that this was written in 1930, and it's a shame that there aren't more women writing as innovatively today. Julia is a female outsider, rare enough in fiction, and Rhys's speciality. She is portrayed from a variety of viewpoints, her own thoughts and observations and those of people she meets and family members. These thoughts and ideas are constantly changing, evolving with mood and circumstance. It is highly astute in its depiction of the ambivalence surrounding female sexuality, and of the sadness of seeing a dream giving way to an empty reality. Julia is becoming deadened by the struggle to survive in a world of indifference, is in fact becoming indifferent herself. Mr Mackenzie, who was once attracted by her sensitivity until it became a bore, and who decides he stopped liking her when she'd gone back to a cheap hotel with him after only a couple of dates, is neatly depicted, as is Mr Horsforth, who vacillates wildly between attraction, disgust and gratitude. Julia too is shameless and manipulative when she can raise the energy, when she can force herself out of the solitude she has come to prefer to human contact.

'Animals are better than we are, aren't they? They're not all the time pretending and lying and sneering, like loathsome human beings.'

A very telling story, studded with little diamond insights, strange and original.
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