The Autobiography of My Mother
$18.75
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
11 October 2022
Summary
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 arrival include that of her distant father, who sends her away to another household at the earliest opportunity; of her passion for the stevedore Roland, who fulfils her sexually but not intellectually; and of her husband, who provide…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529076752 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529076757 |
| Author: | Jamaica Kincaid |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 11 October 2022 |
| Weight: | 155g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Fierce, incantory… lyrical… powerful and disturbing
Fierce, incantory… lyrical… powerful and disturbing – Michiko Kakutani * New York Times *
Kincaid, always an elegant stylist, makes this story of a simple woman extraordinary…filling her prose with rich, poetic detail… An unforgettable account of singular survival * San Francisco Chronicle Book Review *
A book that comes both to haunt and to dazzle us … [Kincaid] writes like an angel: with enviable lucidity and precision and a lyric touch that frequently aspires to the condition of poetry * Boston Sunday Globe *
What a writer – elegant, uncompromising, simultaneously direct and layered and complex. * Ali Smith *
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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