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At the Bottom of the River

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Kincaid's first book, which announced the arrival of a singular talent, "will burn on your shelf" (Derek Walcott).Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge gently into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naively whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is partly remembered, partly divined. The memories often concern a childhood in the Caribbean-family, manners, and landscape-as distilled and transformed by Kincaid's special style and vision.Kincaid leads her readers to consider, as if for the first time, the powerful ties between mother and child; the beauty and destructiveness of nature; the gulf between the masculine and the feminine; the significance of familiar things-a house, a cup, a pen. Transfiguring our human form and our surroundings-shedding skin, darkening an afternoon, painting a perfect place-these stories tell us something we didn't know, in a way we hadn't expected.Originally published in 1978, Jamaica Kincaid's first book immediately established her as an inimitable, vibrant, and hauntingly beautiful voice in contemporary literature.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781250322418
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 96
  • Udgivet:
  • 8. oktober 2024
  • Størrelse:
  • 137x25x210 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 454 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 16. januar 2025
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Kincaid's first book, which announced the arrival of a singular talent, "will burn on your shelf" (Derek Walcott).Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge gently into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naively whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is partly remembered, partly divined. The memories often concern a childhood in the Caribbean-family, manners, and landscape-as distilled and transformed by Kincaid's special style and vision.Kincaid leads her readers to consider, as if for the first time, the powerful ties between mother and child; the beauty and destructiveness of nature; the gulf between the masculine and the feminine; the significance of familiar things-a house, a cup, a pen. Transfiguring our human form and our surroundings-shedding skin, darkening an afternoon, painting a perfect place-these stories tell us something we didn't know, in a way we hadn't expected.Originally published in 1978, Jamaica Kincaid's first book immediately established her as an inimitable, vibrant, and hauntingly beautiful voice in contemporary literature.

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