Annie John
Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John · 1985
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About the book
Since her first, prize-winning 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 right now." With *Annie John*, the story of a young girl coming of age in Antigua, Kincaid tore open the theme that lies at the heart of all her fierce, incantatory novels: the ambivalent and essential bonds created by a mother's love. In this novel, written in Kincaid's lucid, elemental style, Annie John's ambivalence is universally familiar and wrenchingly real.
First sentence: For a short while during the year I was ten, I thought only people I did not know died.
Book details
- Year
- 1985
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus, Giroux
- Editions
- 21
- Pages
- 148
- ISBN
- 9780374105211
Data source: Wikidata
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