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After Leaving Mr. MacKenzie (1930) repeats the effective Jean Rhys formula: a broken woman of uncertain age, shattered by hypersensitivity, alcoholism, emotional abuse, vague mental illness, and other 'pathological cruelties of everyday life,' bravely attempts to face another day, suffering self-hatred and self-recrimination with each step of the way.
Nowhere is Jean Rhys’s talent for fully inhabiting the minds of her characters more apparent than in After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie, her masterful second novel. Rhys lays bare the desires and contradictions of the mercurial Julia, and all those trapped in her orbit, in this haunting depiction of life after the end of a tumultuous affair.
17 de mar. de 1997 · 内容简介 · · · · · ·. Julia Martin is at the end of her rope in Paris. Once beautiful, she was taken care of by men. Now after leaving her lover, she is running out of luck. A visit to London to see her ailing mother and distrustful sister bring her stark life into full focus.
Rhys admitted freely that she used her own life experiences to inspire and inform her writing and this most probably accounts for the feeling of authenticity in her work. 'After Leaving Mr MacKenzie' is not a happy novel, just as real life is not always happy, but it is an exceptionally good novel and one that I find easy to recommend. 5 Stars.
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AFTER LEAVING MR. MACKENZIE. by Jean Rhys ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 23, 1971. This is another one of Jean Rhys' forlorn monochromatic sketches of a woman approaching forty but does it really matter. The lines are strongest around the eyes and the mouth. Julia is the same woman who has appeared in all her books ( Good Morning Midnight, 1970, her ...
Like. “There was a vase of flame-coloured tulips in the hall - surely the most graceful of flowers. Some thrust their heads forward like snakes, and some were very erect, stiff, virginal, rather prim. Some were dying, with curved grace in their death.”. ― Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie.
Jean Rhys, 1890 - 1979 Writer Jean Rhys was born in Roseau, Dominica, West Indies. Her father was a Welsh doctor and her mother was a Dominican Creole. Her heritage deeply influenced her life as well as her writing. At seventeen, her father sent her to England to attend the Perse School, Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
