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Kincaid, Jamaica Annie John
Plume 1-May-86 452263565 N Paperback
Amazon.com&newline;Jamaica Kincaid beautifully delineates hatred and fear, because she knows they are often a step away from love and obsession. At the start of Annie John, her 10-year-old heroine is engulfed in family happiness and safety. Though Annie loves her father, she is all eyes for her mother. When she is almost 12, however, the idyll ends and she falls into deep disfavor. This inexplicable loss mars both lives, as each grows adept at public falsity and silent betrayal. The pattern is set, and extended: &doublequote;And now I started a new series of betrayals of people and things I would have sworn only minutes before to die for.&doublequote; In front of Annie's father and the world, &doublequote;We were politeness and kindness and love and laughter.&doublequote; Alone they are linked in loathing. Annie tries to imagine herself as someone in a book--an orphan or a girl with a wicked stepmother. The trouble is, she finds, those characters' lives always end happily. Luckily for us, though not perhaps for her alter ego, Kincaid is too truthful a writer to provide such a finale. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. &newline;&newline;From AudioFile&newline;Kincaid, a Harvard professor born in Antigua, has a lilting delivery that matches her lyrical writing. Kincaid's enunciation is so crisp that her island accent becomes a delightful plus, instead of a distraction. Unlike many authors who read their own work, Kincaid is comfortable with the medium, reading at a leisurely pace and emphasizing the wit and aching emotion of her novel. Though set in a world far removed from America, the story of a mother/daughter relationship is universal. Adults, who can listen in retrospect, should find this as appealing as teens, who can relate to the various painful stages of maturity revealed by Kincaid with humor and tenderness. R.O.F. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Kincaid, Jamaica My Brother
New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 30-Oct-97 374216819 N Hardcover
Amazon.com&newline;Compassion only occasionally lightens the grim tone of Jamaica Kincaid's searing account of her younger brother Devon's 1996 death from AIDS. As in novels such as Annie John, Kincaid is ruthlessly honest about her ambivalence toward the impoverished Caribbean nation from which she fled, her restrictive family, and the culture that imprisoned Devon. That honesty, which includes chilling detachment from her brother's suffering, is sometimes alienating. But art has its own justifications. The bitter clarity of Kincaid's prose and the tangled, undeniably human feelings it lucidly dissects are justification enough. &newline;&newline;From Library Journal&newline;Reading novelist Kincaid's prose is like learning all over again why one writes: to sift endlessly, reorder, and distill one's raw, cluttered experience so that what emerges is, quite simply, perfect. Kincaid has written most recently about her mother (The Autobiography of My Mother, LJ 1/96), and indeed is still writing about her mother, though obliquely, in this memoir of her youngest brother, who died at age 33 from AIDS. Kincaid did not know until after his death that he was homosexual; she had not seen him for 20 years before his illness. In gently insistent, incantatory prose, she recounts their forced reunion, the complicated feelings his illness evokes, the pity and anger she feels for a life senselessly squandered, and her coming to love him as he lay dying. Being back in her native Antigua, and especially near her mother, stirs powerful and painful memories, and in the end Kincaid's achievement is most valuable for how she has transformed her grief into a monument to beauty and permanence. A stunning work; for all collections.&newline;-?Amy Boaz, &doublequote;Library Journal&doublequote;&newline;Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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