Quartet Author:Jean Rhys Marya met Monsieur Stephan Zelli during a period of unemployment in London, just when she was becoming afraid of growing old. He told her that he was of Polish nationality, that he lived in Paris, that he considered her beautiful and wished to marry her. Unaware of all the things he hadn't told her, Marya thought that her problems would be so... more »on over. Instead, they were about to begin. When Stephan is arrested, Marya finds herself broke and alone once again. Taken up by an English couple, the Heidlers, who slowly overwhelm her with their own desires, Marya feels reality slipping further and further away.
Set against a background of the winter-wet streets and smoke-filled cafes of Montparnasse, and the romantic intrigues of Paris between the wars, QUARTET is Jean Rhys's poinant story of a woman on her own, manipulated even by those who say they love her best.« less