These, though they share the slimness of size and the same melancholy, slightly hallucinatory quality of Wide Sargasso Sea, are much more straightforward, semi-autobiographical affairs. I was thinking more of her four earlier novels. Magnificent as Wide Sargasso Sea is, however, it wasn't the book I was thinking about when I mentioned Rhys in relation to Gwendoline Riley. Living a long way from her Dominican birthplace in a squalid bungalow in a Devonshire village, hounded by her neighbours as a thief and a witch (one woman accused her of impersonating the "dead author, Jean Rhys"), Wide Sargasso Sea plucked Rhys out of poverty and won her long-overdue recognition. By 1966 she was also something of a madwoman in the attic herself, and it could be said that Wide Sargasso Sea rescued not one but two people. Published in 1966 (after a 27-year silence), Rhys saw Wide Sargasso Sea as her rescue job on the madwoman in the attic and a deconstruction of the race and gender relations in Jane Eyre that nobody else seemed to question. Told in odd, dreamlike prose, the narrative drifts through shabby mansions and overgrown gardens, where ferns grow as big as trees and over-scented flowers bloom (like truth) just out of reach, and where, inevitably, a few weeks of bliss tumble into tragedy and madness. A prequel to Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea recounts the story of the marriage and honeymoon of Rochester and his first wife, Bertha. Her last novel, Wide Sargasso Sea, is her best-known. Audience: General/trade.Rhys is a bit of a strange creature. Stern: The Man and His Gang also provides a comprehensive history of the gang s operations in the years 1940-48, when it fought what it called British imperialism in the Mideast. Stern: The Man and His Gang by Zev Golan is the first English-language account of the life of Abraham Stern, the charismatic poet who founded the underground that called itself the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel. In the 1940s, before there was an Israel, the Holy Land was rocked by warfare and violence, and no militia was fiercer than the band of Jewish revolutionaries known as the Stern Gang.
Stern: The Man and His Gang traces Abraham Stern s evolution from hated gangster to folk hero and chronicles the military and political deeds of the thousand Jews who joined his war against England.
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