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Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid is the author of many books, including Annie John, A Small Place, and Lucy. Long out of print in America, Alexandre Dumas's most daring narrative is now available in this major new translation by Tina A. Kover. Filled with ... [... more]
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Annie, Gwen, Lilly, Pam, And Tulip
Author: Jamaica Kincaid Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780394580357 ISBN: 0394580354 Number Of Pages: 16 Publication Date: 1989-09-26 Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Release Date: 1989-09-26 [... more]
CDN$33.00
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Susan Miller
From author Susan Beth Miller comes a luminous debut novel in the tradition of Jamaica Kincaid. Emotionally gripping and exquisitely written, Indigo Rose tells the story of one woman's extraordinary When Indigo Rosemartin leaves behind her ... [... more]
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New Yorker Magazine
Raymond Carver, Alice Munro, John Updike, Gabriel García Márquez, Mavis Gallant, Julian Barnes, Michael Chabon, Jamaica Kincaid, John O'Hara, Muriel Spark, Ann Beattie, and William Maxwell are among the contributors to Nothing But You: Love [... more]
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My Garden (Book)
the thickness of things: "Oh, how I like the rush of things, the thickness of things . . ." Oh, how I like Kincaid's My Garden (Book). I am halfway through it and realize I had better slow down, because I am not going to find another book on [... more]
CDN$17.50
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Mr. Potter
From Amazon.com: The refrain of Jamaica Kincaid's clear-sighted, poetic novel Mr. Potter is that reading and writing are incomparable prizes: it is literacy that separates us--not without pain--from the natural world. Kincaid's title character, a [... more]
CDN$19.95
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At the Bottom of the River
Prose Like Water: In its strangeness is its beauty. I won't pretend to have understood this book. At times I'd put it down and think, huh? But the overall impression was that of the privilege of listening in on the unstructured flow of a person's [... more]
CDN$13.00
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Writers on Writing: Collected Essays From The New York Times
From Amazon.com: After 30 years as a journalist, John Darnton decided to try his hand at writing a novel. If he wrote 1,000 words a day, he discovered, he'd have a book in a matter of months. But wouldn't it be nice to learn a few tricks of the trade [... more]
CDN$19.95
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Talk Stories
From Amazon.com: Restraint, it turns out, is a highly effective critical strategy. In Talk Stories, her collection of New Yorker "Talk of the Town" pieces dating from 1974 to 1983, Jamaica Kincaid writes prose as bare and bright as a light bulb. [... more]
CDN$14.50
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Annie John
From Amazon.com: Jamaica Kincaid beautifully delineates hatred and fear, because she knows they are often a step away from love and obsession. At the start of Annie John, her 10-year-old heroine is engulfed in family happiness and safety. Though Annie [... more]
CDN$14.95
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Lucy
Surfaces: Lucy is a well written book about a young girl coming of age, separated from her home and all that is familiar to her. The book deals with issues like displacement, sex, mothers, and rage. I was tempted to dismiss this book as pointless after [... more]
CDN$8.95
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Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker
From Amazon.com: "Ah, what can ever be more stately and admirable to me than mast-hemm'd Manhattan?" marveled the excitable Walt Whitman in 1865. The skinny island and its four sister boroughs have continued to fascinate writers ever since, and [... more]
CDN$23.00
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