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My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants ...
Amazon.com Review: This anthology edited by novelist Jamaica Kincaid is a fascinatingly quirky compilation of writings about plants by the people who love them. Some are exceedingly practical--Ken Druse's essay "Desire Under the Jacks" gives [... more]
$20.00
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My Garden (Book)
Insufferable: I found this book insufferable, and didn't get to finish it. The contrived title should have tipped me off. Why isn't Amazon listing it correctly? It should be My Garden (Book): For started, i don't really care for Jamaica Kincaid's writing [... more]
$16.00
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My Brother
Amazon.com Review: Compassion only occasionally lightens the grim tone of Jamaica Kincaid's searing account of her younger brother Devon's 1996 death from AIDS. As in novels such as Annie John, Kincaid is ruthlessly honest about her ambivalence toward [... more]
$13.00
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At the Bottom of the River
Love, sadness, and growing up in the Caribbean: Jamaica Kincaid's AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER is a study of voice and language that first brought the author recognition beyond the pages of literary journals. These ten stories, all but the last extremely [... more]
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Lucy (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)
Yet another mindless book for the masses: I wanted to love Jamaica Kincaid -- I really did. I first picked up Lucy expecting to love it because I had heard such wonderful things about Kincaid. What a pathetic disappointment. The novel drones on with no [... more]
$11.95
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A Small Place
The lovely tourists: I had to read this book for a Multicultural Literature class at my Uni, and, far from being informative, all it did was fill with me a contempt of my own. I am not a racist by any means, but when confronted with such a bitter, snide [... more]
$9.95
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Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya (Directions)
A Difficult Trek: As an avid reader, enthusiastic traveler, lover of Nepal, and a wannabe gardener, I eagerly picked up "Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya". Jamaica Kincaid has written of her trek through the mountains of Nepal gathering [... more]
$20.00
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My Brother
Amazon.com Review: Compassion only occasionally lightens the grim tone of Jamaica Kincaid's searing account of her younger brother Devon's 1996 death from AIDS. As in novels such as Annie John, Kincaid is ruthlessly honest about her ambivalence toward [... more]
$24.95
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Lucy: A Novel
Yet another mindless book for the masses: I wanted to love Jamaica Kincaid -- I really did. I first picked up Lucy expecting to love it because I had heard such wonderful things about Kincaid. What a pathetic disappointment. The novel drones on with no [... more]
$13.00
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Talk Stories
Amazon.com Review: 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 [... more]
$13.00
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A Small Place
The lovely tourists: I had to read this book for a Multicultural Literature class at my Uni, and, far from being informative, all it did was fill with me a contempt of my own. I am not a racist by any means, but when confronted with such a bitter, snide [... more]
$12.00
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Mr. Potter: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: 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]
$12.00
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