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Good Morning, Midnight is a 1939 modernist novel by the author Jean Rhys. Often considered a continuation of Rhys' three other early novels, Quartet (1928), After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie (1931) and Voyage in the Dark (1934), it is experimental in design and deals with a woman's feelings of vulnerability, depression, loneliness and desperation ...
Jul 4, 2017 · Good Morning, Midnight: A Novel. Paperback – July 4, 2017. “A remarkable and gifted debut novel” (Colson Whitehead) about two outsiders—a lonely scientist in the Arctic and an astronaut trying to return to Earth—as they grapple with love, regret, and survival in a world transformed.
Aug 9, 2016 · 3.90. 20,978 ratings3,159 reviews. Augustine, a brilliant, aging astronomer, is consumed by the stars. For years he has lived in remote outposts, studying the sky for evidence of how the universe began. At his latest posting, in a research center in the Arctic, rumors of war arrive.
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Plot summary. Good Morning, Midnight ' s narrative voice alternates between two main characters and ambiences. One is Augustine, an astronomer in his late 70s who lives and works on Barbeau's Observatory, a research station in the Arctic Circle.
Good Morning, Midnight is the story of a young woman’s plunge into depression and loneliness in the years following World War I. Sasha Jensen, an English woman, who had spent the years immediately following the war with her husband, Enno, a Frenchman, in Paris, finds herself back there retracing her steps through their old haunts and reliving ...
Dec 17, 1999 · Good Morning, Midnight is beautifully tragic, darkly humorous, and completely hopeless. Set in the 1930s, Jean Rhys writes of an Englishwoman who returns to Paris after a long absence, but rather than affording her a new start, the city only reignites the painful memories of her past.
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