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At the Bottom of the River / Jamaica Kincaid

Public ISBD Title : At the Bottom of the River Material Type: printed text Authors: Jamaica Kincaid, Author Publisher: Farrar, Giroux and Strauss Publication Date: 1983 ISBN (or other code): 978-0-374-52734-1 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Keywords: Fiction. Abstract: "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." (From the back cover). At the Bottom of the River [printed text] / Jamaica Kincaid, Author . - [S.l.] : Farrar, Giroux and Strauss, 1983. ISBN : 978-0-374-52734-1 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Keywords: Fiction. Abstract: "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." (From the back cover).

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See Now Then / Jamaica Kincaid

Public ISBD Title : See Now Then Material Type: printed text Authors: Jamaica Kincaid, Author Publisher: Farrar, Giroux and Strauss Publication Date: 2013 ISBN (or other code): 978-0-374-53436-3 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Keywords: Fiction. Abstract: "In See Now Then, the brilliant and evocative new novel from Jamaica Kincaid―her first in ten years―a marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies. This piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her characters―a mother, a father, and their two children, living in a small village in New England―as they move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future: for, as she writes, "the present will be now then and the past is now then and the future will be a now then." Her characters, constrained by the world, despair in their domestic situations. But their minds wander, trying to make linear sense of what is, in fact, nonlinear. See Now Then is Kincaid's attempt to make clear what is unclear, and to make unclear what we assumed was clear: that is, the beginning, the middle, and the end." (From the back cover). See Now Then [printed text] / Jamaica Kincaid, Author . - [S.l.] : Farrar, Giroux and Strauss, 2013. ISBN : 978-0-374-53436-3 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Keywords: Fiction. Abstract: "In See Now Then, the brilliant and evocative new novel from Jamaica Kincaid―her first in ten years―a marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies. This piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her characters―a mother, a father, and their two children, living in a small village in New England―as they move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future: for, as she writes, "the present will be now then and the past is now then and the future will be a now then." Her characters, constrained by the world, despair in their domestic situations. But their minds wander, trying to make linear sense of what is, in fact, nonlinear. See Now Then is Kincaid's attempt to make clear what is unclear, and to make unclear what we assumed was clear: that is, the beginning, the middle, and the end." (From the back cover).

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The Autobiography of My Mother: A Novel / Jamaica Kincaid

Public ISBD Title : The Autobiography of My Mother: A Novel Material Type: printed text Authors: Jamaica Kincaid, Author Publisher: Penguin Books Publication Date: 1996 ISBN (or other code): 978-0-452-27466-2 Languages : English (eng) Abstract: Xuela Claudette Richardson, daughter of a Carib mother and a half Scot, half African father, grows up motherless in the care of her father’s laundress. Haunted by loneliness and emotionally bereft, she is a child who revels in sensuality, rich colors, earthy smells, and silken textures. She will be seduced as a schoolgirl, entered into a passionate affair with a stevedore, and marry an English doctor whose first wife she is said to have poisoned. But it is Xuela’s search for knowledge about her Carib mother that becomes her obsession. Piecing together a portrait of the woman she has never seen, she imagines her mother meeting her father, she imagines her life and her feelings, she imagines her as a part of a dying race... and looks for herself within the picture in the most lush and enigmatic of Jamaica Kincaid’s novels—-a stunning, spare, and magnificent work about race, sex, and love. But The Autobiography of My Mother: A Novel [printed text] / Jamaica Kincaid, Author . - [S.l.] : Penguin Books, 1996. ISBN : 978-0-452-27466-2 Languages : English (eng) Abstract: Xuela Claudette Richardson, daughter of a Carib mother and a half Scot, half African father, grows up motherless in the care of her father’s laundress. Haunted by loneliness and emotionally bereft, she is a child who revels in sensuality, rich colors, earthy smells, and silken textures. She will be seduced as a schoolgirl, entered into a passionate affair with a stevedore, and marry an English doctor whose first wife she is said to have poisoned. But it is Xuela’s search for knowledge about her Carib mother that becomes her obsession. Piecing together a portrait of the woman she has never seen, she imagines her mother meeting her father, she imagines her life and her feelings, she imagines her as a part of a dying race... and looks for herself within the picture in the most lush and enigmatic of Jamaica Kincaid’s novels—-a stunning, spare, and magnificent work about race, sex, and love. But

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