As the early-evening Metroliner slowsand sidles at dream-flight heightthrough the apocalyptic back lotsand whistle stops of New Brunswick
Jean Rhys’s haunting and hallucinatory prose poem of a novel, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), boldly tells the story— authentic, intimate, and unsparing, because first-person confession—of Mrs. Bertha Rochester, the doomed madwoman of Charlotte...
