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Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974-

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jamaica Kincaid, Henry Louis Gates Jr (Introduction by)Publish date:8/5/2025Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374613235ISBN-10:374613230UPC:9780374613235Book Category:Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Essays, Women Authors, Caribbean & Latin AmericanSize:9.16 x 6.33 x 1.14 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SC3PPD2T0F

My ignorance was on my side. I wasn't afraid. I didn't know what to be afraid of. I did one thing, I did another. I did what I now call crashing about. One day I started to write.

This collection of Jamaica Kincaid's nonfiction writing, including early pieces from publications such as The New Yorker, The Village Voice, and Ms., proves what her admirers have always known: from the start, she has been a consummate stylist, and she has always been herself.

From "Jamaica Kincaid's New York," which narrates her move to the city from Antigua at the age of sixteen and a half, to the classic "Biography of a Dress," her cultural criticism, and her original thinking about the meaning of the garden, Kincaid writes about the world as she finds it, imparting her own quizzical, rapier-sharp response to whatever crosses her path.

Putting Myself Together is a brilliant, trenchant, hilarious self-portrait of the artist and a testament to how this inimitable, self-created mind and spirit, endowed with wit, humor, and fearlessness, has become one of our greatest, most original writers.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374613235ISBN-10:374613230UPC:9780374613235Book Category:Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Essays, Women Authors, Caribbean & Latin AmericanSize:9.16 x 6.33 x 1.14 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SC3PPD2T0F
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, Mr. Potter, My Brother, See Now Then, and, with Kara Walker, An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children. She lives in Vermont.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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