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Title: Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys ISBN: 0-393-30394-2 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Dark look inside a woman's mind
Comment: "Good Morning, Midnight" tells the story of Sasha Jensen in post-war Paris. The author gets inside Sasha's head and exposes to the reader her low sense of self-worth and her misaligned priorities. We get glimpses into Sasha's past to give clues as to what has brought her to this state of depression. Sasha cares too much about what others around her think of her; she is always concious of how she must appear to waiters in cafes, people on the street and workers at the hotel where she is staying. She is always putting thoughts in their head of how they must percieve her. Sasha also does not have her financial priorities straight since she buys a fancy new hat and plans on buying other new items for her wardrobe and in the meantime is neglecting to eat.
I found "Good Morning, Midnight" a fascinating insight into a woman in a "low" psychological state. This book is not recommended if you are looking for an uplifting, feel-good story. "Good Monring, Midnight" would probably lead to great discussion for book groups.
Rating: 4
Summary: Reading this book has left a mark on me...
Comment: I have a sentence from 'Good Morning Midnight' tattooed on my right arm. There is no higher acolade.
Rating: 4
Summary: Delicately Violent
Comment: It is no wonder that after the publication of this novel people assumed Jean Rhys had committed suicide. It is a dark, introverted, soul-searching novel. It's brilliance lies in the compassion with which Sasha is treated. This is a woman who is unquestionably at the end of her tether. Life occurs almost unconsciously to her. She drinks non-stop and thinks of fashion before eating. But these aren't superficial choices. They are the few soft whispers of a woman about to go over the brink. Throughout the novel you are given brief glimpses of her past as a shop assistant and the troubles in her marriage. In themselves the troubles which result from them are not ample enough to drive a normal woman to such desperation. You feel that the reason for her state of mind is more the result of a profound neglect of her individual spirit by men. She is led on to believe in a progression of being, but is abandoned to clutch at the ghosts of her old haunts in Paris. This is a sharp contrast to the ideas that we have about artistic scene of Paris in this time period. It is a more sincerely concentrated personal experience than most accounts. It is interesting to think of the end in contrast to the jubilant yeses of Molly Bloom in Ulysses. Sasha's yes is one of doom and resignation to a world that has flown past her.
Despite its depressing character, this novel is a fascinating look at a tendency to sink into a psychological state often ignored. It is also a subtle portrayal of an identity built on a knife's edge. Luckily, Ms Rhys did survive this novel (however unhappily). It is a miracle that she did considering the violent lack of self worth of Sasha; to have imagined such a person must have been terrifying indeed.
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Title: Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys, Herbst ISBN: 0393311465 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Jean Rhys ISBN: 0393315479 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Quartet by Jean Rhys ISBN: 0393315460 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Collected Short Stories (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Jean Rhys ISBN: 0393306259 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf ISBN: 015611870X Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: October, 1970 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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