9780374527914
Talk Stories
Jamaica Kincaid
ISBN 13: 9780374527914
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Softcover
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"This collection is a fine portrait of Kincaid's initial flight as a writer and an introduction to the powerful writer she's become."
Denise Gess, Book, January/February 2001
Review:"Kincaid filled the rigid form of the "Talk of the Town" with syncopated rhythms, quirky details and a zest for impressionistic reporting. ...Such fresh, risky, improvisational and hard-to-categorize writing, the fruit of a remarkable understanding between a seasoned editor and a nervy new writer, is rare and precious, and best appreciated here, where each provocative essay plays against the others, no longer anonymous."
Donna Seaman, Chicago Tribune, 02/22/2001
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Book Description: Farrar Straus Giroux, United States, 2002. Paperback. Book Condition: New. Reprint. 140 x 213 mm. Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.From "The Talk of the Town, " Jamaica Kincaid's first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York "Talk Pieces" is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original writing for the "New Yorker"'s "Talk of the Town," composed during the time when she first came to the United States from Antigua, from 1978 to 1983. Kincaid found a unique voice, at once in sync with William Shawn's tone for the quintessential elite insider's magazine, and (though unsigned) all her own--wonderingly alive to the ironies and screwball details that characterized her adopted city. New York is a town that, in return, fast adopts those who embrace it, and in these early pieces Kincaid discovers many of its hilarious secrets and urban mannerisms. She meets Miss Jamaica, visiting from Kingston, and escorts the reader to the West Indian-American Day parade in Brooklyn; she sees Ed Koch don his "Cheshire-cat smile" and watches Tammy Wynette autograph a copy of Lattimore's "Odyssey"; she learns the worlds of publishing and partying, of fashion and popular music, and how to call a cauliflower a crudite. The book also records Kincaid's development as a young writer--the newcomer who sensitively records her impressions here takes root to become one of our most respected authors. Bookseller Inventory # APC9780374527914 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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