Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

Acclaimed novelist Caryl Phillips talks about the early life and work of Jean Rhys.(11/14/18)


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In his novel “A View of the Empire at Sunset,” about the Dominican-born, British writer Jean Rhys, author Caryl Phillips wrote “there was something terribly illicit about her own waiflike presence in the world.” Though she was the author of revered works like “Wide Sargasso Sea,” Rhys rarely received the literary credit her work deserved during her life or after her death in 1979. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of the Arts, and recipient of the 2013 Anthony N. Sabga Caribbean Award for Excellence, Caryl will join Leonard for a discussion of Rhys’s early life and work.
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Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New YorkBy Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

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