The author of a prize-winning collection of short stories, At the Bottom of the River, presents her first novel, about a girl growing up in Antigua and her ambivalent but inescapable relationship with her mother. Reprint.
Annie John, the headstrong, brilliant heroine of Jamaica Kincaid's bestseller, is a child of Antigua but an adolescent of the whole world. Her passage into young adulthood-the tumultuous love of her mother and their gradual separation-is a story that will speak to listeners of all ages. Internationally acclaimed author Jamaica Kincaid has written a true contemporary classic, this generation's Catcher in the Rye.
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
Jun 1997
ISBN
9780374525101
Pages
148 p.
Item Type
Book
Format
Paperback
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