I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour

I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

Miranda Seymour

368 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction biography emotional reflective medium-paced
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Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later i...

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Moods

informative 58%
reflective 50%
sad 50%
emotional 25%
dark 16%
adventurous 8%
challenging 8%
funny 8%

Pace

medium 66%
slow 33%

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3.62

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