{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Wide Sargasso Sea","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/wide-sargasso-sea","description":"Jean Rhys\u0026#39;s reputation was made upon publication of this passionate and heartbreaking novel, in which she brings into the light one of citsion\u0026#39;s most mysterious characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Bronte\u0026#39;s \u0026quot;Jane Eyre\u0026quot;.\r\n\r\nA sensual and protected young woman, the narrator grows up in the lush, natural world of the Caribbean. She is sold into marriage to the cold-hearted and prideful Rochester, who succumbs to his need for money and his lust. Yet he will make her pay for her ancestors\u0026#39; sins of slaveholding, excessive drinking and nihilistic despair by enslaving her as a prisoner in his bleak British home.","author_name":"Jean Rhys","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/jean-rhys","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/edition/30401010/a1cf4b009fc89c8b24a16b886812138b0d92300a.jpeg","thumbnail_width":333,"thumbnail_height":500}