Jamaica Kincaid, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $18 (144p) ISBN 978-0-374-21494-4
A tinted review in adult Forecasts indicates a book that's of exceptional importance to our readers, but hasn't received a starred or boxed review.MR. POTTERJamaica Kincaid. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $18 (144p) ISBN 0-374-21494-8Kincaid...
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Jamaica Kincaid, Author . National Geographic Directions $20 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7922-6530-6
Novelist Kincaid tells of her journey into the foothills of the Himalayas in search of rare plants to bring home to her Vermont garden. Much of the book feels repetitive, in an almost meditative way, as the author uses plain yet lyrical language to...
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Jamaica Kincaid, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $17.95 (164p) ISBN 978-0-374-19434-5
Kincaid ( At the Bottom of the River ; Annie John ) has with this novel created an insouciant yet vulnerable narrator in the person of Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies who works as an au pair for a seemingly happy family in an unidentified...
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Jamaica Kincaid, Author Plume Books $9.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-452-26754-1
Kincaid's first collection focuses on a nameless, blossoming Caribbean girl. According to PW , ``The voice--incantatory, lyric, rhapsodic--is closer to the condition of poetry and music than to fiction in any of its ordinary registers.'' (Jan.)
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Jamaica Kincaid, Author Plume Books $11.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-452-26677-3
Lucy, a teenager from the West Indies who has renounced her family and past, comes to America to work as an au pair and detachedly observes the deterioration of her employers' marriage. ``This is a slim book but Kincaid has crafted it with a spare...
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Jamaica Kincaid, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-10732-1
Kincaid's third novel (after Annie John) is presented as the mesmerizing, harrowing, richly metaphorical autobiography of 70-year-old Xuela Claudette Richardson. Earthy, intractably antisocial, acridly introspective, morbidly obsessed with history...
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Jamaica Kincaid, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $19 (197p) ISBN 978-0-374-21681-8
""I became a writer out of desperation, so when I first heard my brother was dying I was familiar with the act of saving myself: I would write about him."" The result of Kincaid's self-preserving urge is a memoir that has less to do with her AIDS-aff
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Jamaica Kincaid, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-27239-5
Fans of the New Yorker's ""Talk of the Town"" column will rejoice with the publication of Kincaid's new book, a collection of 77 short pieces she wrote at the magazine between 1978 and 1983, when it was under the stewardship of William Shawn....
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Jamaica Kincaid. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $23 (192p) ISBN 978-0-374-18056-0
In her first novel in a decade, Kincaid (Autobiography of My Mother) brings her singular lyricism and beautifully recursive tendencies to the inner life of Mrs. Sweet, who is facing the end of her marriage, and who, over the course of the book,...
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Jamaica Kincaid, Author, Jill Fox, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $23 (229p) ISBN 978-0-374-28186-1
""I wanted a garden that looked like something I had in my mind's eye, but exactly what that might be I did not know and even now do not know."" Celebrated novelist Kincaid (The Autobiography of My Mother) should delight fans of her fiction and...
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Jamaica Kincaid, read by the author. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, five CDs, 5.75 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-2649-5
Literary critics that have hailed Kincaid’s fiction can add another accolade to the author’s list: stellar audiobook narration. In this audio edition of her slender, long-awaited new novel, Kincaid is on secure footing as narrator, her lilting voice
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Jamaica Kincaid, illus. by Ricardo Cortés. Black Sheep, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-61775-716-7
This send-up of the Nancy Drew mysteries by Kincaid (See Now Then, for adults) first appeared as a 1980 New Yorker story about a gala celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first book’s publication. Here, Kincaid’s piece is recast as a picture book
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