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Among Flowers
National Geographic Society 2011; US$ 10.95In this delightful hybrid of a book?part memoir and part travel journal?the bestselling author takes us deep into the mountains of Nepal with a trio of botanist friends in search of native Himalayan plants that will grow in her Vermont garden. Alighting from a plane in the dramatic Annapurna Valley, the ominous signs of Nepal's Maoist guerrillas are... more...
Mr. Potter
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003; US$ 13.99The story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home: ?Kincaid?s most poetic and affecting novel to date? (Robert Antoni, The Washington Post Book World) Jamaica Kincaid?s first obssession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffeur who makes his living along the roads that pass... more...
See Now Then
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013; US$ 23.99In 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,... more...
A Small Place
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000; US$ 12.99A 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... more...
The Autobiography of My Mother
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1996; US$ 13.99Powerful, disturbing, stirring, Jamaica Kincaid?s novel is the deeply charged story of a woman?s life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, 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... more...
Lucy
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002; US$ 13.99Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to America to work as an au pair for a wealthy couple. She begins to notice cracks in their beautiful façade at the same time that the mysteries of own sexuality begin to unravel. Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new heroine who is destined to win a place of honor in contemporary fiction. ... more...
Annie John
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1997; US$ 12.99Annie 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... more...
At the Bottom of the River
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000; US$ 12.99Jamaica Kincaid's inspired, lyrical short stories 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 partially remembered partly divined. The memories often concern a childhood... more...
My Brother
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998; US$ 13.99Jamaica Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother Devon Drew's life is also the story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. Kincaid's unblinking record of a life that ended too early speaks volumes about the difficult... more...
My Garden (Book)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001; US$ 16.99One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves. 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): she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously,... more...









