JULY BOOK
July's book will be Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (https://www.amazon.com/Wide-Sargasso-Sea-Jean-Rhys/dp/0393352560/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=). What better way to spend a summer evening than bantering with a pack of cantankerous, opinionated bookworms at the Sylvia Hotel Lounge, while enjoying some fine food and beverages, kitty corner to the splendor of English Bay? See you at the Sylvia on Tuesday, July 2; festivities commence at 7pm and newcomers are always welcome.
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys's return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings to light one of fiction's most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. This mesmerizing work introduces us to Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Mr. Rochester. Rhys portrays Cosway amidst a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind.
