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A view of the empire at sunset

Title
A view of the empire at sunset / Caryl Phillips.
Author
Phillips, Caryl
Publication
  • New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Description
324 pages; 22 cm
Summary
"Caryl Phillips's A View of the Empire at Sunset is the sweeping story of the life of the woman who became known to the world as Jean Rhys. Born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams in Dominica at the height of the British Empire, Rhys lived in the Caribbean for only sixteen years before going to England. A View of the Empire at Sunset is a look into her tempestuous and unsatisfactory life in Edwardian England, 1920s Paris, and then again in London. Her dream had always been to one day return home to Dominica. In 1936, a forty-five-year-old Rhys was finally able to make the journey back to the Caribbean. Six weeks later, she boarded a ship for England, filled with hostility for her home, never to return. Phillips's gripping new novel is equally a story about the beginning of the end of a system that had sustained Britain for two centuries but that wreaked havoc on the lives of all who lived in the shadow of the empire: both men and women, colonizer and colonized. A true literary feat, A View of the Empire at Sunset uncovers the mysteries of the past to illuminate the predicaments of the present, getting at the heart of alienation, exile, and family by offering a look into the life of one of the greatest storytellers of the twentieth century and retelling a profound story that is singularly its own"--Dust jacket flap.
Subject
  • Rhys, Jean > Fiction
  • Rhys, Jean
  • 1900-1999
  • Women novelists > Fiction
  • British colonies
  • Women novelists
  • Paris (France) > History > 20th century > Fiction
  • London (England) > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction
  • Great Britain > History > 20th century > Fiction
  • Great Britain > Colonies > Caribbean Area > Fiction
  • Dominica > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction
  • France > Paris
  • Great Britain
Genre/Form
  • Biographical fiction.
  • Fiction.
  • Historical fiction.
  • History.
Call Number
Sc D 18-656
ISBN
  • 9780374283612
  • 0374283613
LCCN
  • 2017047959
  • 40028233117
  • 40028303703
OCLC
1004935236
Author
Phillips, Caryl, author.
Title
A view of the empire at sunset / Caryl Phillips.
Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Local Note
Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Local Subject
Black author.
Other Standard Identifier
40028233117
40028303703
Research Call Number
Sc D 18-656
JFD 18-4404
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