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Among Flowers by Jamaica Kincaid
$20.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Picador Collection
Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador BooksIn this acclaimed travel memoir Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a spectacular and exotic three-week trek through the Himalayan land of Nepal, where she and her companions are gathering seeds for planting at home. The natural world and, in particular, plants and gardeni ...Show more
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived a peaceful and content life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful and influential presence, who sits at the very centre of the little girl's existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother's shadow.When sh ...Show more
At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
At the Bottom of the River is Jamaica Kincaid's first published work, a selection of inter-connected prose poems told from the perspective of a young Afro-Caribbean girl.Collecting pieces written for the New Yorker and the Paris Review between 1978 and 1982, including the seminal 'Girl', these stunning ...Show more
Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Lucy, 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. At first glance Lewis and Mariah are a blessed couple - handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Almost at once, however, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful faca ...Show more
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books Xuela Claudette Richardson is recalling the last seventy years of her life, and so she must begin with her birth, and the accompanying death of her mother. Xuela's vivid, visceral recollections of the lonely, unsettled life that follows the trauma of her arriva ...Show more
The Autobiography of My Mother - A Novel by Jamaica Kincaid
$29.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
Powerful, disturbing, stirring, Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, loses her mother to death the moment she is born and must find her way on her ...Show more
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