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  • Published: 3 November 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241285558
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176

Smile Please




Jean Rhys wrote this autobiography in her old age, now the celebrated author of Wide Sargasso Sea but still haunted by memories of her troubled past: her precarious jobs on chorus lines and relationships with unsuitable men, her enduring sense of isolation and her decision at last to become a writer. From the early days on Dominica to the bleak time in England, living in bedsits on gin and little else, to Paris with her first husband, this is a lasting memorial to a unique artist.

  • Published: 3 November 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241285558
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176

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