At the Bottom of the River
Jamaica Kincaid
(Author)
Description
Jamaica Kincaid's At the Bottom of the River ... 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.Product Details
Price
$13.00
$12.09
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publish Date
October 15, 2000
Pages
96
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.2 X 0.4 inches | 0.2 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780374527341
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Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John's, Antigua. Her books include "At the Bottom of the River," "Annie John," "Lucy," "The Autobiography of My Mother," and "My Brother." She lives with her family in Vermont.
Reviews
"This book will burn on your shelf. It is too choked with love to incite envy, too humble for admiration, and still too stratling to escape astonishment." --Derek Walcott