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Jamaica Kincaid
In A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid candidly appraises where she grew up, and makes palpable the impact of European colonisation and tourism.
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A classic coming-of-age story from Jamaica Kincaid, following a young woman as she enters adulthood against the backdrop of a strange and unfamiliar country.
Poetic, stirring, and disturbing, this novel is a powerful and unforgettable statement of one woman’s struggle for identity against a hostile backdrop of sexism and colonialism.
The first short-story collection from Jamaica Kincaid, this is a stunning evocation of life as a young Afro-Caribbean woman.
The essential, urgent coming-of-age novel by Jamaica Kincaid, a reinventor of the form.
Since her first, prizewinning collection of stories, At the Bottom of the River, Jamaica Kincaid's work has…
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Kincaid's first book, which announced the arrival of a singular talent, "will burn on your shelf" (Derek Walcott).
Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge gently into another way of seeing…
Finalist for the 1997 National Book Award for Nonfiction
Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and…
Jamaica Kincaid invites us into her garden in this "irresistible stream of horticultural consciousness" (Michael Pollan).
Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a square plot in the middle of…
A startlingly beautiful novel about marriage by "one of our most scouringly vivid writers" (The New York Times Book Review).
In See Now Then, Jamaica Kincaid's brilliant and evocative novel…
The "revelatory" (The New York Review of Books) story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home.
Jamaica Kincaid's first obsession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life…
Kincaid gathers a sparkling selection of new and beloved poetry and prose about each author's favorite flora.
The passion for gardening and the passion for words come together in this…
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Novelist Kincaid ponders one of her greatest loves: gardening. She scrutinizes the sources of her inspiration–seed catalogs, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, and Monet’s garden at Giverny–and takes an intimate, playful…
Jamaica Kincaid's collected writings for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" record her first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York.
Talk Stories is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original…
Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker
"In this modern-day abecedarium, Jamaica Kincaid shares her deep knowledge of plant history and nomenclature while writing about the intersections of the plant world with history, race, mythology, colonial appropriation…
The award-winning author of Mr. Potter delivers a beautifully wrought new novel about marriage and family.
Originally featured in the New Yorker's 'Talk of the Town' column, these are Jamaica Kincaid's first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York.
By the author of Annie John and A Small Place , and a collection of short stories At the Bottom of the River .
Kincaid’s first obsession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffeur who makes his living along the wide open roads…
Kincaid’s first obsession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffeur. Ignoring the legacy of his father, a poor fisherman…
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Jamaica Kincaid’s engrossing account of a three-week trek through the Himalayas with fellow horticulturalists, intertwining mediations on the stunning landscapes with observations on culture, tourism and family.
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Jamaica Kincaid’s incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother’s life and death is also the story of her family on the island of Antigua. Visceral and wrenching…
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Annie John is growing up on the magical island of Antigua. It should be a sojourn in paradise for her but adolescence takes the brilliant, headstrong girl into open rebellions…
Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, this memoir is a brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua, by the author of Annie John.
Lucy, a 19-year-old West Indian girl, escapes her family and past to work in New York for Lewis and Mariah and their four daughters. As she cares for them, she…
After growing up without a mother Xuela Claudette Richardson again finds herself imagining what the woman might have been like and how her own life might have turned out different…
The bestselling author takes us deep into the mountains of Nepal
The classic coming-of-age story of a precocious young girl’s deteriorating relationship with her mother, as she enters adolescence and leaves her childhood behind on the idyllic island of Antigua.
Diane Simmons
Twaynes United States Authors Series presents concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.
Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of…
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
With the publication of her novel Annie John in 1985, Jamaica Kincaid entered the ranks of the best novelists of her generation.
Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Changing her name early in her career because her parents disapproved of her writing, Jamaica Kincaid crossed audiences to embrace feminist, American, postcolonial and world literature. This book offers an…
Antonia Purk
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Wilson Harris
This epic masterpiece is a radical landmark in modern literature, reissued with a foreword by poet Ishion Hutchinson to mark Wilson Harris’ centenary.
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Jamaica Kincaid’s Girl, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
Ian Frazier
In the early 1970s, Ian Frazier left a small town in Ohio to move to a loft in lower Manhattan. This book is his account of the city over thirty…
A celebration of adventure and curiosity, this compilation transports readersfrom Patagonia to the Ivory Coast to small-town Vermont.
Jamaica Kincaid,Ian Frazier
This text is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid’s original writing for The New Yorker , composed during the time when she arrived in the USA from Antigua, from 1978 to…
Jamaica Kincaid,Ricardo Cortes
A beautifully illustrated story of three girls caught up in the most curious of mysteries.
A radical landmark in Caribbean literature, reissued with a new foreword by Jamaica Kincaid to mark Wilson Harris’ centenary: a visionary masterpiece tracing the dreamlike voyage of a riverboat crew…
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Welcome to Ian Frazier’s New York, a city more downtown than up, where every block is an event, and where the denizens are larger than life. His bewitching, inimitable voice…
A Study Guide for Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
A Study Guide for Jamaica Kincaid’s My Brother, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Nonfiction Classics for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
Jamaica Kincaid’s most beguiling and powerful work to date. Nineteen-year-old Lucy comes to America from the West Indies to work for a couple and their four children. Almost at once…
