description: An alternate cover edition can be found here and here.Living in Paris with her reckless, vagabond husband Stephan, Marya is very near to being happy. She enjoys their haphazard existence, never questioning how he lives, never wanting to know the truth. When Stephan is suddenly imprisoned she is left penniless and alone. Taken up by a sophisticated English couple, the Heidlers, who gradually overwhelm her with their own desires, Marya finds her sense of reality slipping further and further away.Set against a background of winter-wet streets and smoke-filled cafés, Jean Rhys's first novel is both poignant and disturbingly intimate in its vivid depiction of a woman on her own.
language: English
title: Quartet
titlecomplete: Quartet
characters: Stephan Zelli, H.J. Heidler, Lois Heidler, Marya Zelli
genres: Classics, British Literature, France, Novels, Romance, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Womens
ratings_count: 2275
places: Paris
publisher: Penguin Classic