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A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
Category: Biography
If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see...So begins Jamaica Kincaid's powerful portrait of the damaged paradise that was her childhood home. The island of Antigua is a magical place of breathtaking beauty - with cloudless skies, dazzling blue waters, and majestic sunsets. But it is ...Show more
Among Flowers by Jamaica Kincaid
Category: Travel Literature
A combination memoir and travel journal details an adventure through the mountains of Nepal in search of native flowers and plants that could grow in Vermont, encountering guerrillas, Sherpas, yaks, and spectacular landscapes on the way.
Among Flowers by Jamaica Kincaid
Category: Travel | Series: Picador Collection
Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador BooksIn this acclaimed travel memoir Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a spectacular and exotic three-week trek through the Himalayan land of Nepal, where she and her companions are gathering seeds for planting at home. The natural world and, in particular, plants and gardeni ...Show more
Among Flowers - A Walk in the Himalaya by Jamaica Kincaid
Category: Travel
In this travel memoir, the acclaimed novelist Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a three-week trek through Nepal, the spectacular and exotic Himalayan land, where she and her companions are gathering seeds for planting at home. The natural world and, in particular, plants and gardening are central to Kincaid's ...Show more
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
Category: Fiction
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 and secret discoveries, and finally to a crisis of emotions that wrenches her away from her island home.
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived a peaceful and content life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful and influential presence, who sits at the very centre of the little girl's existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother's shadow.When sh ...Show more
At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
At the Bottom of the River is Jamaica Kincaid's first published work, a selection of inter-connected prose poems told from the perspective of a young Afro-Caribbean girl.Collecting pieces written for the New Yorker and the Paris Review between 1978 and 1982, including the seminal 'Girl', these stunning ...Show more
God Made My Face: a Collective Portrait of James Baldwin by Hilton Als (Editor); Stephen Best (Text by); Daphne A. Brooks (Text by); Teju Cole (Text by); Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Text by); Barry Jenkins (Text by); Jamaica Kincaid (Text by); David Leeming (Text by); Darryl Pinckney (Text by)
Category: Culture
Baldwin's life and legacy as remembered by a pantheon of artists and writers: from Jamaica Kincaid and Barry Jenkins to Richard Avedon and Alice Neel When author James Baldwin died in 1987, he left behind an extraordinary body of work: novels, poems, film scripts and, perhaps most indelibly, essays. A ...Show more
Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. At first glance Lewis and Mariah are a blessed couple - handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Almost at once, however, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful faca ...Show more
My Garden by Jamaica Kincaid; J. Kincaid
Category: Reference
One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves.Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book): she gathers all she loves about ...Show more
See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid
Category: Fiction
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 inhab ...Show more
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books Xuela Claudette Richardson is recalling the last seventy years of her life, and so she must begin with her birth, and the accompanying death of her mother. Xuela's vivid, visceral recollections of the lonely, unsettled life that follows the trauma of her arriva ...Show more