The Collected Short Stories (Broché)

Bringing together all of Jean Rhys's short stories, this collection contains some of her most dazzling and devastating writing. Here are seedy hotels and bars in bohemian Paris, ruinous love affairs, Caribbean childhoods, ex-chorus girls in London bedsits, old ladies in drunken, genteel poverty ; always outsiders, always close to the edge. Told with painful clarity and sharp humour, they cover the whole of Rhys's writing life, including all of her collections The Left Bank, Tigers Are Better-Looking and Sleep It Off, Lady as well as three additional stories.