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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Annie John
Amazon.com Review: 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]
$22.25
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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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In the Land of the Blue Poppies: The Collected ...
Real travel adventure: We tend to take for granted the intrepid and brave explorers that brought us knowledge of far-off places and new plants and peoples. Reading Frank Kingdon Ward is like being part of his party as he nonchalantly climbs unknown, [... more]
$19.00
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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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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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Annie John: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: 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]
$12.00
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The Best American Travel Writing 2005 (The Best American ...
Essays Highlight the Dark Underbelly of Travel: This year's editor Jamaica Kincaid has done an excellent job of choosing essays that, more than chronicle exotic journeys, speak about the perplexities of the human condition as her selections are often [... more]
$14.00
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Gone to New York: Adventures in the City
GONZO JOURNALISM LIVES!: Hunter Thompson may be gone, but personal journalism is alive and well as evidenced by this superlative collection of quirky,elegant pieces subtitled, "Adventures in the City". If Ian Frazier's book were a mystery, #1 [... more]
$22.00
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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]
$13.95
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Autobiography of My Mother
Amazon.com Review: "My mother died at the moment I was born, and so for my whole life there was nothing standing between myself and eternity," writes Jamaica Kincaid in this disturbing, compelling novel set on the island of Dominica. Born to a [... more]
$14.00
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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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