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"As she bears witness to the sweeping corruption, dilapidated buildings and shameful legacy of Antigua's colonial past, author Jamaica Kincaid compels us to think about the people behind the beautiful landscape of this tiny island"--Publisher's description.

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Main Author: Kincaid, Jamaica (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.
Edition:First Farrar, Straus and Giroux paperback edition.
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Kincaid, Jamaica > Homes and haunts > Antigua and Barbuda > Antigua.
Novelists, Antiguan and Barbudan > Biography.
Women authors, Caribbean > Biography.
Postcolonialism > Antigua and Barbuda > 20th century.
Antigua and Barbuda > Antigua > Description and travel.
Autobiographies.
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Summary:"As she bears witness to the sweeping corruption, dilapidated buildings and shameful legacy of Antigua's colonial past, author Jamaica Kincaid compels us to think about the people behind the beautiful landscape of this tiny island"--Publisher's description.
Item Description:"Originally published in 1988"--Title page verso.
Physical Description:81 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN:0374527075
9780374527075
Author Notes:Jamaica Kincaid came to the United States in 1966 as a free-lance writer and is now on staff at the New Yorker. Her first volume of stories, At the Bottom of the River (1983), depicts men and women alienated from each other by conflict, physical separation, or death. The story "My Mother" vividly describes the painful separation between mother and daughter; and the stories in Annie John (1985) clearly reveal that the world of the past cannot be recaptured. Kincaid's poetic use of language and everyday images allows the reader to experience ordinary events with a new and heightened sensitivity. Kincaid is a relatively new writer whose works are beginning to receive critical attention.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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