The Collected Short Stories

Reading such stories as a group . . . can be overwhelming. Yet it is precisely this intense immersion in experience that is the essence of Rhys'' art. The force of her stories lies in the fusion of elegant prose with an uncannypenetration of the darker reaches of the soul.Washington Post Book World Jean Rhys was one of the twentieth century''s foremost writers a literary artist who made exqusite use of the raw material of her own often turbulent life to create fiction of memorable resonance and poignancy. Here for the first time in one volume are her complete stories.