At the bottom of the river / Jamaica Kincaid.

By:

Kincaid, Jamaica

Series: Aventura | Aventura : the Vintage library of contemporary world literature | AventuraPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, 1985, 1983.Edition: 1st Aventura edDescription: 82 pages ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0394736834
9780394736839
ISBN 0-394-73683-4

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Fiction.

Additional physical formats: At the bottom of the river.DDC classification:

813/.54 19
F WI Kin

LOC classification:

PR9275.A583 K5635 1985
PR9275.A583 K635 1985

Other classification:

17.97
18.07

Online resources:

Available additional physical forms:

Also issued online.

Contents:

Girl -- In the night -- At last -- Wingless -- Holidays -- The letter from home -- What I have been doing lately -- Blackness -- My mother -- At the bottom of the river.

Action note:

20020311 sct

Summary: "Jamaica Kincaid's inspired, lyrical short stories Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naively whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is partially remembered partly divined. The memories often concern a childhood in the Caribbean--family, manners, and landscape--as distilled and transformed by Kincaid's special style and vision. Kincaid leads her readers to consider, as if for the first time, the powerful ties between mother and child; the beauty and destructiveness of nature; the gulf between the masculine and the feminine; the significance of familiar things--a house, a cup, a pen. Transfiguring our human form and our surroundings--shedding skin, darkening an afternoon, painting a perfect place--these stories tell us something we didn't know, in a way we hadn't expected."--Amazon.com.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	National Library of Jamaica	Daphne Douglas Reading Room	F WI Kin (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1000000031456
Books	OCLC Data	Unknown	F WI Kin (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		0000000005276

Contents : Girl - In the night - At last - Wingless - Holidays - The letter from home - What I have been doing lately - Blackness - My mother - At the bottom of the river

Girl -- In the night -- At last -- Wingless -- Holidays -- The letter from home -- What I have been doing lately -- Blackness -- My mother -- At the bottom of the river.

"Jamaica Kincaid's inspired, lyrical short stories Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naively whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is partially remembered partly divined. The memories often concern a childhood in the Caribbean--family, manners, and landscape--as distilled and transformed by Kincaid's special style and vision. Kincaid leads her readers to consider, as if for the first time, the powerful ties between mother and child; the beauty and destructiveness of nature; the gulf between the masculine and the feminine; the significance of familiar things--a house, a cup, a pen. Transfiguring our human form and our surroundings--shedding skin, darkening an afternoon, painting a perfect place--these stories tell us something we didn't know, in a way we hadn't expected."--Amazon.com.