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Schon kurz nach ihrem Umzug von Antigua nach New York unternimmt Jamaica Kincaid erste Schreibversuche, bleibt in der literarischen Welt vorerst aber ein Nobody. Bis sie 1974 den Herausgeber des New Yorker trifft: William Shawn zeigt sich begeistert von ihren Texten und stellt sie ein. Kincaids eigenwillig-originellen Beiträge erscheinen fortan in der »Talk of the Town«-Kolumne. Mal legt sie als Story einfach die Spesenabrechnung vor, ein ande...

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 under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate chauffeur who makes his living along the wide, open roads that pass the only towns he has ever seen. The sun shines squarely overhead, the ocean lies on every side, and suppressed passion fills the air.As Mr. Potter's na...

Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a square plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced gardener friends, she planted only seeds of flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book):, she gathers all that she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it in the same spirit: generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity onl...

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 writing for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town, " composed during the time when she first arrived in the United States from Antigua, from 1978 to 1983. Kincaid developed a unique voice, both in sync with William Shawn's tone for the quintessential elit...

Finalist for the 1997 National Book Award for NonfictionJamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. My Brother is an unblinking record of a ...

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, and independence. Accompanied by vivid, powerful illustrations by Kara Walker"--

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, 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 the...

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 inspired anthology, a collection of essays and poems on topics as diverse as beans and roses, by writers who garden and gardeners who write.Among the contributors are Daniel Hinkley on hellebores, Marina Warner, who remembers the Guinée rose, and Henri Cole, with...

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 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 partly remembered, partly divined. The memories often concern a childhood in the Caribbean-family, manners, and...

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 been met with nothing short of amazement. The New York Times hailed her "prophetic power" and the Los Angeles Times Book Review said, "No one else seems to be writing quite this way."With Annie John, the story of a young girl coming of age in Antigua, ...

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A story of a marriage, Jamaica Kincaid's See Now Then is one of her most emotionally and thematically daring works.

Jamaica Kincaid's poetic and affecting story of an ordinary man attempting to make a home on the island of Antigua.

Originally featured in the New Yorker's 'Talk of the Town' column, these are Jamaica Kincaid's first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York.

One of the most important literary voices of the twentieth century on one of her greatest loves - gardening.

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Jamaica Kincaid's poweful and moving account of the life and death of her younger brother.

The first short-story collection from Jamaica Kincaid, this is a stunning evocation of life as a young Afro-Caribbean woman.

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.