Putting Myself Together - Jamaica Kincaid

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Auteur(s) : Jamaica Kincaid

Editeur : Farrar, Straus And Giroux

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/08/2025

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 336.0

Dimensions : 22.9 x 15.2 x 35.0

ISBN : 9780374613235

Résumé :

My ignorance was on my side. I wasn't afraid. I didn't know what to be afraid of. I did one thing, I did another. I did what I now call crashing about. One day I started to write.

This collection of Jamaica Kincaid's nonfiction writing, including early pieces from publications such as The New Yorker, The Village Voice, and Ms., proves what her admirers have always known: from the start, she has been a consummate stylist, and she has always been herself.

From Jamaica Kincaid's New York, which narrates her move to the city from Antigua at the age of sixteen and a half, to the classic Biography of a Dress, her cultural criticism, and her original thinking about the meaning of the garden, Kincaid writes about the world as she finds it, imparting her own quizzical, rapier-sharp response to whatever crosses her path.

Putting Myself Together is a brilliant, trenchant, hilarious self-portrait of the artist and a testament to how this inimitable, self-created mind and spirit, endowed with wit, humor, and fearlessness, has become one of our greatest, most original writers.

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Biographie:
Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John's, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, My Brother, Mr. Potter, and See Now Then. She teaches at Harvard University and lives in Vermont....

Sommaire:

Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

My ignorance was on my side. I wasn't afraid. I didn't know what to be afraid of. I did one thing, I did another. I did what I now call crashing about. One day I started to write.

This collection of Jamaica Kincaid's nonfiction writing, including early pieces from publications such as The New Yorker, The Village Voice, and Ms., proves what her admirers have always known: from the start, she has been a consummate stylist, and she has always been herself.

From Jamaica Kincaid's New York, which narrates her move to the city from Antigua at the age of sixteen and a half, to the classic Biography of a Dress, her cultural criticism, and her original thinking about the meaning of the garden, Kincaid writes about the world as she finds it, imparting her own quizzical, rapier-sharp response to whatever crosses her path.

Putting Myself Together is a brilliant, trenchant, hilarious self-portrait of the artist and a testament to how this inimitable, self-created mind and spirit, endowed with wit, humor, and fearlessness, has become one of our greatest, most original writers.