Mr. Potter - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250340658ISBN-10:1250340659UPC:9781250340658Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Sagas, Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:Caribbean & West IndiesSize:8.10 x 5.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCS6PB0N2C
The "revelatory" (The New York Review of Books) story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home.
Jamaica Kincaid's first obsession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate chauffeur who makes his living along the wide, open roads that pass the only towns he has ever seen. The sun shines squarely overhead, the ocean lies on every side, and suppressed passion fills the air. As Mr. Potter's narrative unfolds in linked vignettes, his story becomes the story of a vital, damaged community. Amid his surroundings, he struggles to live at ease: to purchase a car, to have girlfriends, and to shake off the encumbrance of his daughters--one of whom will return to Antigua after he dies and tell his story with equal measures of distance and sympathy. In Mr. Potter, Kincaid breathes life into a figure unlike any other in contemporary fiction, an individual consciousness emerging gloriously out of an unexamined life.Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250340658ISBN-10:1250340659UPC:9781250340658Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Sagas, Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:Caribbean & West IndiesSize:8.10 x 5.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCS6PB0N2C
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, My Brother, and See Now Then. She teaches at Harvard University and lives in Vermont.
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