AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER: STORIES - Scarce Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed by Jamaica Kincaid - SIGNED ON THE HALF-TITLE PAGE

Kincaid, Jamaica

ISBN 10: 0374106606 / ISBN 13: 9780374106607

Published by New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983, 1983

About this Item

1st Printing. Signed. 82 pages. Published in 1983. The author's breakthrough debut collection of short stories. One of the most important American literary debuts of the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Jamaica Kincaid's "At The Bottom of The River: Stories". Her slim yet spectacular debut, still her best book thus far: Deceptively simple stories that evoke and recreate an Edenic, rural childhood in the West Indies (Antigua) in a way that is fully alive and truly universal. Like every serious reader of literature, a reader from the East Indies (Asia-Pacific) will relate to and relish Kincaid's vivid memories. "More thrilling than any prose I've read in the last few years by a writer from this continent" (Susan Sontag). An absolute "must-have" title for Jamaica Kincaid collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by Jamaica Kincaid. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great collection. This is one of very few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws ("price-clipped" is pandemic), are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the finest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JAMAICA KINCAID TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0374106606.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER: STORIES - Scarce Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed by Jamaica Kincaid - SIGNED ON THE HALF-TITLE PAGE
• Publisher: New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374106606
• ISBN 13: 9780374106607
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author

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.