Author : Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466837799
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Book Synopsis At the Bottom of the River by : Jamaica Kincaid
Download or read book At the Bottom of the River written by Jamaica Kincaid and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2000-10-15 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jamaica Kincaid's At the Bottom of the River... 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.