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Annie John
Jamaica Kincaid
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R363
Discovery Miles 3 630
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Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best.
In My Garden (Book) Kincaid gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination.
This is an intimate, playful book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the people who tend to them.
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My Brother (Paperback)
Jamaica Kincaid
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R239
Discovery Miles 2 390
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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, difficulties and dangers of this
magnificent journey. For Kincaid and three botanist friends, Nepal
is a paradise, a place where a single day's hike can traverse
climate zones, from subtropical to alpine, encompassing flora
suitable for growing at their homes, from Wales to Vermont. Yet as
she makes clear, there is far more to this foreign world than
rhododendrons that grow thirty feet high. Danger, too, is a
constant companion - and the leeches are the least of their
worries. Unpredictable Maoist guerrillas live in these perilous
mountains, and when they do appear - as they do more than once -
their enigmatic presence lingers long after they have melted back
into the landscape. And Kincaid, who writes of the looming, lasting
effects of colonialism in her works, necessarily explores the irony
of her status as memsahib with Sherpas and bearers. A wonderful
blend of introspective insight and beautifully rendered
description, Among Flowers is a vivid, engrossing, and
characteristically frank memoir from one of the most striking
voices in contemporary literature. Part of the Picador Collection,
a new series showcasing the best in modern literature.
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Mr Potter (Paperback)
Jamaica Kincaid
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R229
Discovery Miles 2 290
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The visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew's dreamlike
jungle voyage ... 'My new all time favourite book ... A
magnificent, breathtaking and terrifying novel.' Tsitsi Dangarembga
'An exhilarating experience ... Makes visions real and reality
visions ... Genius.' Jamaica Kincaid 'A masterpiece: I love this
book for its language, adventure and wisdoms.' Monique Roffey
'Revel in the inviolate, ever-deepening mystery of Wilson Harris's
work.' Jeet Thayil 'The Guyanese William Blake . Such poetic
intensity.' Angela Carter I dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing eye
and one living closed eye ... A crew of men are embarking on a
voyage up a turbulent river through the rainforests of Guyana.
Their domineering leader, Donne, is the spirit of a conquistador,
obsessed with hunting for a mysterious woman and exploiting
indigenous people as plantation labour. But their expedition is
plagued by tragedies, haunted by drowned ghosts: spectres of the
crew themselves, inhabiting a blurred shadowland between life and
death. As their journey into the interior - their own hearts of
darkness - deepens, it assumes a spiritual dimension, guiding them
towards a new destination: the Palace of the Peacock ... A
modernist fever dream; prose poem; modern myth; elegy to victims of
colonial conquest: Wilson Harris' masterpiece has defied definition
for over sixty years, and is reissued for a new generation of
readers. 'One of the great originals ... Visionary ... Dazzlingly
illuminating.' Guardian 'Amazing ... Masterly ... Near-miraculous.'
Observer 'Staggering ... Both brilliant and terrifying.' The Times
'The most inimitable [writer] produced in the English-speaking
Caribbean.' Fred D'Aguiar 'Extraordinary ... Courageous and
visionary ... It speaks to us in tongues.' Pauline Melville
A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John
"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ."
So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up. Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies.
"Ms. Kincaid writes with passion and conviction, and she also writes with a musical sense of language, a poet's understanding of how politics and history, private and public events, overlap and blur." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books 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
provides her with status and a wealthy lifestyle but whom she is
incapable of loving. Poetic and disturbing, The Autobiography of My
Mother is one of Kincaid's most powerful statements of
Afro-Caribbean women's struggle for identity and independence,
against a hostile backdrop of sexism and colonialism. Part of the
Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern
literature.
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Lucy (Paperback)
Jamaica Kincaid
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R227
Discovery Miles 2 270
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Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America
to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children.
At first glance Lewis and Mariah are a blessed couple - handsome,
rich, and seemingly happy. Almost at once, however, Lucy begins to
notice cracks in their beautiful facade. With a mixture of anger
and compassion, Lucy scrutinizes the privileged, facile world of
her employers while comparing it to the vivid realities of her home
in the Caribbean. Lucy has no illusions about her own past, but
neither is she prepared to be deceived about where she presently
is. In this environment a new person unfolds: passionate, sexually
forthright, and disarmingly honest. In Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid has
created a startling new character: a captivating heroine possessed
with clear-sightedness and ferocious integrity. Part of the Picador
Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature.
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Annie John (Paperback)
Jamaica Kincaid
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R228
Discovery Miles 2 280
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An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived a peaceful and
content life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a
powerful and influential presence, who sits at the very centre of
the little girl's existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and
thrives within her mother's shadow. When she turns twelve, however,
Annie's life changes, in ways that are often mysterious to her. She
begins to question the cultural assumptions of her island world; at
school she makes rebellious friends and frequently challenges
authority; and most frighteningly, her mother, seeing Annie as a
'young lady', ceases to be the source of unconditional adoration
and takes on the new and unfamiliar guise of adversary. A haunting
and tragicomic tale of the end of childhood, Annie John is told
with Jamaica Kincaid's trademark candour and complexity, and is a
true coming-of-age classic.
At the Bottom of the River is Jamaica Kincaid's first published
work, a selection of inter-connected prose poems told from the
perspective of a young Afro-Caribbean girl. Collecting pieces
written for the New Yorker and the Paris Review between 1978 and
1982, including the seminal 'Girl', these stunning works announced
a fully-formed, generational talent and firmly established the
themes that Kincaid would continue to return to in her later work:
the loss of childhood, the fractious nature of mother-daughter
relationships, the intangible beauty of the natural world, and the
striving for independence in a colonial landscape. Powerful and
lyrical, this is an unforgettable collection from a unique and
necessary literary voice. Part of the Picador Collection, a new
series showcasing the best of modern literature.
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Lucy (Paperback)
Jamaica Kincaid
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R405
R306
Discovery Miles 3 060
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The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations--newly available in paperback
Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and Mariah are a thrice-blessed couple--handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Yet, alomst at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful facade. With mingled anger and compassion, Lucy scrutinizes the assumptions and verities of her employers' world and compares them with the vivid realities of her native place. Lucy has no illusions about her own past, but neither is she prepared to be deceived about where she presently is. At the same time that Lucy is coming to terms with Lewis's and Mariah's lives, she is also unravelling the mysteries of her own sexuality. Gradually a new person unfolds: passionate, forthright, and disarmingly honest. In Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new character possessed with adamantine clearsightedness and ferocious integrity--a captivating heroine for our time.
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A Small Place (Paperback)
Jamaica Kincaid; Preface by Jamaica Kincaid
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R291
R235
Discovery Miles 2 350
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Antigua--a ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies and the author's birthplace--is the setting of a lyrical, sardonic, and forthright essay that offers an insider's eye-opening view of the lives and ways of her people.
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Georges (Paperback)
Alexandre Dumas; Translated by Tina Kover; Edited by Werner Sollors; Foreword by Jamaica Kincaid
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R416
R363
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A major new translation of a stunning rediscovered novel by
Alexandre Dumas, Georges is a classic swashbuckling adventure.
Brilliantly translated by Tina A. Kover in lively, fluid prose,
this is Dumas's most daring work, in which his themes of intrigue
and romance are illuminated by the issues of racial prejudice and
the profound quest for identity. Georges Munier is a sensitive boy
growing up in the nineteenth century on the island of Mauritius.
The son of a wealthy mulatto, Pierre Munier, Georges regularly sees
how his father's courage is tempered by a sense of inferiority
before whites-and Georges vows that he will be different. When
Georges matures into a man committed to moral superiority mixed
with physical strength, the stage is set for a conflict with the
island's rich and powerful plantation owner, Monsieur de Malmedie,
and a forbidden romance with Sara, the beautiful woman engaged to
Malmedie's son. Swordplay, a slave rebellion, a harrowing escape,
and a vow of vengeance-Georges is unmistakably the work of the
master who wrote The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte
Cristo. Yet it stands apart as the only book Dumas ever wrote that
confronts the subject of race-a potent topic, since Dumas was of
African ancestry himself. This edition also features a captivating
Introduction by Jamaica Kincaid and an eloquent Afterword and Notes
by Werner Sollors, who addresses key themes such as colonialism,
racism, African slavery, and interracial intimacy. Long out of
print in America, Georges can now be appreciated as never before
and added to the greatest works of this immortal author. From the
Hardcover edition.
From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal, an
unforgettable novel of one woman's courageous coming-of-age
Powerful, disturbing, stirring, Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the
deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica.
Xuela Claudette Richardson, the daughter of a Carib mother and a
half-Scottish, half-African father, loses her mother to death the
moment she is born and must find her way on her own.
Kincaid takes us from Xuela's childhood in a home where she can
hear the song of the sea to the tin-roofed room where she lives as
a schoolgirl in the house of Jack LaBatte, who becomes her first
lover. Xuela develops a passion for the stevedore Roland, who
steals bolts of Irish linen for her from the ships he unloads, but
she eventually marries an English doctor, Philip Bailey. Xuela's is
an intensely physical world, redolent of overripe fruit, gentian
violet, sulfur, and rain on the road, and it seethes with her
sorrow, her deep sympathy for those who share her history, her fear
of her father, her desperate loneliness. But underlying all is "the
black room of the world" that is Xuela's barrenness and
motherlessness. "The Autobiography of My Mother" is a story of
love, fear, loss, and the forging of character, an account of one
woman's inexorable evolution, evoked in startling and magical
poetry.
"Annie John "is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl
growing up on the island of Antigua. A classic coming-of-age story
in the tradition of "The Catcher in the Rye "and "A Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man, "Kincaid's novel focuses on a universal,
tragic, and often comic theme: the loss of childhood. Annie's
voice--urgent, demanding to be heard--is one that will not soon be
forgotten by readers.
An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived an idyllic
life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful
presence, who is the very center of the little girl's existence.
Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother's
benign shadow. Looking back on her childhood, she reflects, "It was
in such a paradise that I lived." When she turns twelve, however,
Annie's life changes, in ways that are often mysterious to her. She
begins to question the cultural assumptions of her island world; at
school she instinctively rebels against authority; and most
frighteningly, her mother, seeing Annie as a "young lady," ceases
to be the source of unconditional adoration and takes on the new
and unfamiliar guise of adversary. At the end of her school years,
Annie decides to leave Antigua and her family, but not without a
measure of sorrow, especially for the mother she once knew and
never ceases to mourn. "For I could not be sure," she reflects,
"whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it
was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing
between me and the rest of the world."
A Modern Library Paperback Original
During the first years of the twentieth century, the British plant collector and explorer Frank Kingdon Ward went on twenty-four impossibly daring expeditions throughout Tibet, China, and Southeast Asia, in search of rare and elusive species of plants. He was responsible for the discovery of numerous varieties previously unknown in Europe and America, including the legendary Tibetan blue poppy, and the introduction of their seeds into the world’s gardens. Kingdon Ward’s accounts capture all the romance of his wildly adventurous expeditions, whether he was swinging across a bottomless gorge on a cable of twisted bamboo strands or clambering across a rocky scree in fear of an impending avalanche. Drawn from writings out of print for almost seventy-five years, this new collection, edited and introduced by professional horticulturalist and House & Garden columnist Tom Christopher, returns Kingdon Ward to his deserved place in the literature of discovery and the literature of the garden.
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See Now Then (Paperback)
Jamaica Kincaid
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R385
R320
Discovery Miles 3 200
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In "See Now Then," the brilliant and evocative new novel from
Jamaica Kincaid--her first in ten years--a marriage is revealed in
all its joys and agonies. This piercing examination of the manifold
ways in which the passing of time operates on the human
consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her
characters--a mother, a father, and their two children, living in a
small village in New England--as they move, in their own minds,
between the present, the past, and the future: for, as she writes,
"the present will be now then and the past is now then and the
future will be a now then." Her characters, constrained by the
world, despair in their domestic situations. But their minds
wander, trying to make linear sense of what is, in fact, nonlinear.
"See Now Then "is Kincaid's attempt to make clear what is unclear,
and to make unclear what we assumed was clear: that is, the
beginning, the middle, and the end.
Since the publication of her first short-story collection, "At the
Bottom of the River," which was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award
for Fiction, Kincaid has demonstrated a unique talent for seeing
beyond and through the surface of things. In "See Now Then," she
envelops the reader in a world that is both familiar and
startling--creating her most emotionally and thematically daring
work yet.
Welcome to Ian Frazier's New York, where every block is an event,
and where the denizens are larger than life. Meet landlord
extraordinaire Zvi Hugo Segal, and the man who scaled the World
Trade Center. Learn the location of Manhattan's antipodes, and
meander the length of Route 3 to New Jersey. Like his literary
forebears Joseph Mitchell and A. J. Liebling, Frazier makes us fall
in love with America's greatest city all over again.
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