BOOKS

AfterLeavingMrMcKenzie

Curator Reviews

Alan Cumming

This is the story of a woman who has been discarded and who will not go down gently. If ever there was an unsung heroine of feminist literature, it is the amazing Jean Rhys.

View Alan Cumming's Top 10 Favorite Books
Francois Ozon

A friend of mine recommended this to me in my twenties as a suggestion for a film because Rhys is so good at portraying women’s lives, all of which are in various ways portraits of herself. I love the book, I love the writing, and I love the story of Jean Rhys herself - she was obscure, and unlucky in love for most of her life, and only became famous in her seventies. For the final years of her life she had champagne, money, and esteem but she complained that it had all come too late.

View Francois Ozon's Top 10 Favorite Books