Description
| Product ID: | 9781529076783 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Title: | At the Bottom of the River |
| Authors: | Author: Jamaica Kincaid |
| Page Count: | 80 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Short stories, Short stories |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The first short-story collection from Jamaica Kincaid, this is a stunning evocation of life as a young Afro-Caribbean woman. <p><b><i>At the Bottom of the River </i>is Jamaica Kincaid’s first published work, a selection of inter-connected prose poems told from the perspective of a young Afro-Caribbean girl.</b><br><br>Collecting pieces written for the<i> New Yorker</i> and the<i> Paris Review </i>between 1978 and 1982, including the seminal ‘Girl’, these stunning works announced a fully-formed, generational talent and firmly established the themes that Kincaid would continue to return to in her later work: the loss of childhood, the fractious nature of mother–daughter relationships, the intangible beauty of the natural world, and the striving for independence in a colonial landscape.<br><br>Powerful and lyrical, this is an unforgettable collection from a unique and necessary literary voice.<br><br><b>Part of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature.</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-07-07 |