At the Bottom of the River

Kincaid, Jamaica

ISBN 10: 0374106606 / ISBN 13: 9780374106607

Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1983

About this Item

82 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Cynthia Krupat. Her first book. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!. Seller Inventory # 890329673

Bibliographic Details

Title: At the Bottom of the River

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York

Publication Date: 1983

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Jamaica 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 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.

About the Author:

Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John's, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, and My Brother. She lives with her family in Vermont.