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Tigers are better-looking

Tigers are better-looking

Literary Fiction
Pages
224
Published
1968
Language
English

Synopsis

This collection of short stories by Jean Rhys delves into the lives of women navigating complex relationships and societal expectations, often in settings ranging from London to the Caribbean. The narratives explore themes of loneliness, vulnerability, and the search for identity with a distinctive, understated prose style. Each story offers a glimpse into moments of quiet desperation and resilience.

Prose complexity
7/10

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Genres

Literary Fiction

About the author

J
Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys, born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams in 1890, was a 20th-century novelist and writer of short stories. Born and raised on the Caribbean island of Dominica, she moved to England at age 16, became a chorus girl, and embarked on the life of a demimondaine there and in Europe. Her deep sense of being an outsider -- the descendant of white colonialists in the Caribbean, then a Creole in England -- never left her and deeply informed her work. Rhys's evocative sketches in the 1920s caught t...