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Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid (2000, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-100374527075
ISBN-139780374527075
eBay Product ID (ePID)1632584
Product Key Features
Book TitleSmall Place
Number of Pages96 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicCaribbean & Latin American, Special Interest / Literary, Cultural Heritage, Caribbean & West Indies, Caribbean & West Indies / General
Publication Year2000
GenreLiterary Criticism, Travel, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorJamaica Kincaid
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight4.3 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Edition21
ReviewsMs. Kincaid writes with passion and conviction . . . [with] a poet's understanding of how politics and history, private and public events, overlap and blur., "Ms. Kincaid writes with passion and conviction . . . [with] a poet's understanding of how politics and history, private and public events, overlap and blur."-- The New York Times "A jeremiad of great clarity and force that one might have called torrential were the language not so finely controlled."--Salman Rushdie "A rich and evocative prose that is also both urgent and poetic . . . Kincaid is a witness to what is happening in our West Indian back yards. And I trust her."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Kincaid continues to write with a unique, compelling voice that cannot be found anywhere else. Her small books are worth a pile of thicker--and hollower--ones."-- San Francisco Chronicle "This is truth, beautifully and powerfully stated . . . In truly lyrical language that makes you read aloud, [Kincaid] takes you from the dizzying blue of the Caribbean to the sewage of hotels and clubs where black Antiguans are only allowed to work . . . Truth, wisdom, insight, outrage, and cutting wit."-- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Wonderful reading . . . Tells more about the Caribbean in 80 pages than all the guidebooks."-- The Philadelphia Inquirer, A jeremiad of great clarity and force that one might have called torrential were the language not so finely controlled., Kincaid continues to write with a unique, compelling voice that cannot be found anywhere else. Her small books are worth a pile of thicker--and hollower--ones., A rich and evocative prose that is also both urgent and poetic . . . Kincaid is a witness to what is happening in our West Indian back yards. And I trust her., This is truth, beautifully and powerfully stated . . . In truly lyrical language that makes you read aloud, [Kincaid] takes you from the dizzying blue of the Caribbean to the sewage of hotels and clubs where black Antiguans are only allowed to work . . . Truth, wisdom, insight, outrage, and cutting wit., "Ms. Kincaid writes with passion and conviction . . . [with] a poet's understanding of how politics and history, private and public events, overlap and blur."-- The New York Times "A jeremiad of great clarity and force that one might have called torrential were the language not so finely controlled."--Salman Rushdie "A rich and evocative prose that is also both urgent and poetic . . . Kincaid is a witness to what is happening in our West Indian back yards. And I trust her."--Los Angeles Times Book Review "Kincaid continues to write with a unique, compelling voice that cannot be found anywhere else. Her small books are worth a pile of thicker--and hollower--ones."-- San Francisco Chronicle "This is truth, beautifully and powerfully stated . . . In truly lyrical language that makes you read aloud, [Kincaid] takes you from the dizzying blue of the Caribbean to the sewage of hotels and clubs where black Antiguans are only allowed to work . . . Truth, wisdom, insight, outrage, and cutting wit."--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Wonderful reading . . . Tells more about the Caribbean in 80 pages than all the guidebooks."--The Philadelphia Inquirer, "Ms. Kincaid writes with passion and conviction . . . [with] a poet's understanding of how politics and history, private and public events, overlap and blur." -- The New York Times "A jeremiad of great clarity and force that one might have called torrential were the language not so finely controlled." -- Salman Rushdie "A rich and evocative prose that is also both urgent and poetic . . . Kincaid is a witness to what is happening in our West Indian back yards. And I trust her." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Kincaid continues to write with a unique, compelling voice that cannot be found anywhere else. Her small books are worth a pile of thicker--and hollower--ones." -- San Francisco Chronicle "This is truth, beautifully and powerfully stated . . . In truly lyrical language that makes you read aloud, [Kincaid] takes you from the dizzying blue of the Caribbean to the sewage of hotels and clubs where black Antiguans are only allowed to work . . . Truth, wisdom, insight, outrage, and cutting wit." -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Wonderful reading . . . Tells more about the Caribbean in 80 pages than all the guidebooks." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer
Dewey Decimal972.9/74
SynopsisA brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ." So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up. Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies.
LC Classification NumberPR9275.A583K5637
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