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Good Morning, Midnight: Jean Rhys (Penguin Modern Classics)

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I know that which Sophia doesn't know and that's if you can't be yourself you may as well not do anything at all.

I have come across very few characters that are as relentlessly terrified and lonely and unhappy as this one. The book is devastatingly sad at times but there are moment of comic genius that I can’t be sure were intentional or not. Only seven or eight, and yet she knew so exactly how to be cruel and who it was safe to be cruel to.Floating from one fragment to the other, with nothing to stay on, she sheds them all off only to reveal that dry crust of loneliness. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. It is easy to continue the self-destructive pattern even when the affair is over just like Sasha with depressive alcoholism in the empty room, or in bed with incidental lovers. Obviously this is not the sellers fault, but something to keep in mind if you are hard with your books.

It could have been more depressing but the overall tone is just about right, giving a good balance of hopefulness and despair.Comfort yourself with the knowledge that no matter how low you got once upon a time, you never got that damn low.

The madness in love extends beyond mere affection; it envelopes the obsession of being seen through the lens of one's lover.

Wisdom would probably consist in finding some middle path between these two poles of egotism, but if I had to choose, I guess I’d take Rhys’s route. This isn’t a simple case of a wound that time can heal; it is a wound so deep that it will always remain open. Naipaul wrote in 1973 that it is "the most subtle and complete of [Rhys'] novels, and the most humane". Mackenzie's stillborn turtle shell room walked into the river and came out without the turtle and a flat line reading from a long line of tired radio ad gig girls: "I'm back to where I started.

Two things stood out for me rather quickly ( besides hair, feelings of unworthiness, despair, loneliness, pain, authentic truth, and multitude of blows): I KNOW - isn’t that enough? She is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. In her life she found the simplest practicalities beyond her, and once said 'I have only ever written about myself'. In 1949 a theatrical adaptation of the novel was created, for which she was tracked down via newspaper advertisements to obtain her permission.So actually, this is a novel of love honoured and relived in memory, warm compassion, and the reawakening of sensation amidst despair.

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