Authors:Percival Everett, James Kincaid,
Publisher: Akashic Books
Keywords: kincaid, james, amp, novel, akashic, surreal, urban, everett, percival, american, african, people, proposed, thurmond, strom, history
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2004-04-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1888451572
ISBN-13: 9781888451573
Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: novel, lucy
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2002-09-04
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0374527350
ISBN-13: 9780374527358
The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid’s most admired creations--newly available in paperbackLucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and Mariah are a thrice-blessed couple--handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Yet, alomst at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful facade. With mingled anger and compassion, Lucy scrutinizes the assumptions and verities of her employers’ world and compares them with the vivid realities of her native place. Lucy has no illusions
Author: Nanci Kincaid
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Keywords: balls
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1565121783
ISBN-13: 9781565121782
Set in Alabama, "Balls" is told by 15 women and one little girl touched by Mac Gibbs’s fall from fame as a college quarterback to infamy as head coach of the Birmingham University Black Bears. The story they tell is funny but not always pretty--as the view from inside rarely is.
Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: novel, potter
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2003-07-16
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0374528748
ISBN-13: 9780374528744
The story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home: “Kincaid’s most poetic and affecting novel to date” (Robert Antoni, The Washington Post Book World)Jamaica Kincaid’s first obssession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffeur who makes his living along the roads that pass through the only towns he has ever seen and the graveyard where he will be buried. The sun shines squarely overhead, the ocean lies on every side, and suppressed passion fills the air.Ignoring the legacy of his father, a poor fisherman, and his mo
Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: place, small
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2000-04-28
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0374527075
ISBN-13: 9780374527075
A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ."So begins Jamaica Kincaid’s expansive essay, which shows us what we ha
Author: James Kincaid
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: victorians, annoying
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1994-12-15
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 0415907292
ISBN-13: 9780415907293
What happens when bad criticism happens to good people? Annoying the Victorians, sets the tradition of critical discourse and literary criticism on its ear, as well as a few other areas. James Kincaid brings his witty, erudite and thoroughly cynical self to the Victorians, and they will never read (or be read) quite the same.
Author: C. A. Kincaid
Publisher: Kincaid Press
Keywords: tales, nursery, deccan
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $27.45
ISBN-10: 140676213X
ISBN-13: 9781406762136
Originally published in 1914. This volume from the Cornell University Library’s print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
