At the Bottom of the River

Kincaid, Jamaica

ISBN 10: 0374106606 / ISBN 13: 9780374106607

Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1983

Beschreibung

82 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Cynthia Krupat. Her first book. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 890329673

Bibliografische Details

Titel: At the Bottom of the River

Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1983

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition

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Inhaltsangabe:

Book by Kincaid Jamaica

Reseña del editor:

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.