Among Flowers
$18.75
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
11 October 2022
Summary
Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books
In 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 gardening, are central to Kincaid’s work. Among Flowers intertwines meditations on nature and stunning descriptions of the Himalayan landscape with observations on the ironies, diffi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529077025 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529077028 |
| Author: | Jamaica Kincaid |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 11 October 2022 |
| Weight: | 146g |
| Dimensions: | 11mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Kincaid takes her authenticity with her wherever she goes…engaging and stealthily funny
Kincaid takes her authenticity with her wherever she goes…engaging and stealthily funny * San Francisco Chronicle *
What a writer – elegant, uncompromising, simultaneously direct and layered and complex. – Ali Smith
I’ve read everything by Jamaica Kincaid, and I’ve still never read anyone like her. If you are new to Kincaid, I envy you. – Jackie Kay
Jamaica Kincaid
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.
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