Talk Stories
$24.45
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
13 January 2025
Summary
Talk Stories: Jamaica Kincaid’s New York
‘Fresh, risky, improvisational and hard-to-categorize writing’ - Chicago Tribune
Talk Stories is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid’s original writing for the New Yorker’s ‘Talk of the Town’ column from 1978 to 1983. New York is a town that fast adopts those who embrace it, and in these early pieces Kincaid discovers its many hidden secrets and urban mannerisms as she learns the worlds of publishing and partying, of fashion and popular m…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529077049 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529077044 |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Author: | Jamaica Kincaid |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 13 January 2025 |
| Weight: | 190g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 17mm |
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What a writer – elegant, uncompromising, simultaneously direct and layered and complex. – Ali SmithI’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
About The Author
Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid is a respected author who began her writing career with original pieces for the New Yorker’s ‘Talk of the Town’ between 1978 and 1983. During this time, she had recently arrived in the United States from Antigua and found a unique voice that captured both the essence of the magazine and her own distinct perspective on New York City. Her writing reflects a newcomer’s sensitive observations of the city’s ironies, details, secrets, and urban mannerisms, and records her development as a young writer.
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