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Quartet by Jean Rhys
βThere she was and there she stayed. Gradually passivity replaced her early adventurousness. She learned, after long and painstaking effort, to talk like a chorus girl, to dress like a chorus girl and to think like a chorus girl – up to a point. Beyond that point she remained apart, lonely, frightened of her loneliness,…
1920s, 20th century, 3.5 STARS, 3rd pov, Adult, affairs, age gap, ALIENATION, atmospheric, bad love, beautiful prose, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, british dominican author, caribbean author, class, cold tone, ennui, female authors, FRANCE, HISTORICAL FICTION, jealousy, Jean Rhys, LITERARY FICTION, loneliness, Longing, MARRIAGE, melancholy, My reviews, obsession, Paris, prison, psychological, published in 1928, quartet, read in 2022, reading, SOCIAL COMMENTARY, strong sense of place, the female malaise, toxic relationships -
Quicksand by Nella Larsen
βAs the days multiplied, her need of something, something vaguely familiar, but which she could not put a name to and hold for definite examination, became almost intolerable.β re-read:Larsen excels at disquiet atmosphere. The unease is positively palpable here. Larsen’s presents her readers with an unstinting character study of a deeply alienated woman whose estrangement…
1920s, 20th century, 3 STARS, 3rd pov, Adult, ALIENATION, ambiguous protagonist, ambivalent mood, America, American, AMERICAN AUTHOR, american classics, Black & Black heritage authors, Chicago, CLASSICS, cold tone, cultural dissonance, Denmark, ennui, female authors, Harlem, harlem renaissance, HISTORICAL FICTION, identity, introspective, loneliness, Nella Larsen, NEW YORK, otherness, psychological, published in 1928, Quicksand, RACE, re-reads, read in 2021, read in 2022, the female malaise, travel
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