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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
October 2000
On Sale: October 15, 2000
96 pages
ISBN: 0374527342
EAN: 9780374527341
Kindle: B00B8S5DKU
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Fiction Family Life
Jamaica Kincaid's inspired, lyrical short stories Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another
way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive
inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naively whimsical and
biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is
partially remembered partly divined. The memories often
concern a childhood in the Caribbean—family, manners, and
landscape—as distilled and transformed by Kincaid's special
style and vision. Kincaid leads her readers to consider, as if for the first
time, the powerful ties between mother and child; the beauty
and destructiveness of nature; the gulf between the
masculine and the feminine; the significance of familiar
things—a house, a cup, a pen. Transfiguring our human form
and our surroundings—shedding skin, darkening an afternoon,
painting a perfect place—these stories tell us something we
didn't know, in a way we hadn't expected. Ten short fictions whose concerns are frequently a childhood
in the Caribbean.
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