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Author : Jamaica Kincaid
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 1997
Annie John written by Jamaica Kincaid and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Antigua categories.
The island of Antigua is a magical place: growing up there should be a sojourn in paradise for young Annie John. But, as in the basket of green figs carried on her mother's head, there is a snake hidden somewhere within. Annie John begins by adoring her beautiful mother, but inexplicably she comes to hate her. Adolescence takes this brilliant, headstrong girl into open rebellions and secret discoveries - and finally to a crisis of emotions that wrenches her away from her island home.
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Author : Jamaica Kincaid
language : en
Publisher: Everbind
Release Date : 2009-07-01
Annie John written by Jamaica Kincaid and has been published by Everbind this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with categories.
Annie John's story is so touching and familiar it could be happening to any of us, anywhere, any time, any place. And that's exactly the book's strength, its wisdom, its truth. --The New York Times Book Review
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Author : Jamaica Kincaid
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 1997-06-30
Annie John written by Jamaica Kincaid and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-06-30 with Fiction categories.
Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. A classic coming-of-age story in the tradition of The Catcher in the Rye and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Kincaid's novel focuses on a universal, tragic, and often comic theme: the loss of childhood. Annie's voice—urgent, demanding to be heard—is one that will not soon be forgotten by readers. An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived an idyllic life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful presence, who is the very center of the little girl's existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother's benign shadow. Looking back on her childhood, she reflects, "It was in such a paradise that I lived." When she turns twelve, however, Annie's life changes, in ways that are often mysterious to her. She begins to question the cultural assumptions of her island world; at school she instinctively rebels against authority; and most frighteningly, her mother, seeing Annie as a "young lady," ceases to be the source of unconditional adoration and takes on the new and unfamiliar guise of adversary. At the end of her school years, Annie decides to leave Antigua and her family, but not without a measure of sorrow, especially for the mother she once knew and never ceases to mourn. "For I could not be sure," she reflects, "whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world."
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Author : Jamaica Kincaid
language : it
Publisher: Adelphi Edizioni spa
Release Date : 2017-04-27T00:00:00+02:00
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«Il genio ha molte sorprese, e una di queste è la geografia» ha scritto Derek Walcott a proposito di Jamaica Kincaid. Ed è proprio la geografia di Antigua, così accecante e celeste, a permeare la prosa incantatoria del suo primo romanzo: gli alisei, i riti della pesca e dell’obeah si confondono in un’unica musica palpitante, mentre l’albero del pane e le sgargianti poinciane stonano con la chiesa anglicana, con la divisa scolastica, con i quaderni che hanno in copertina la regina Vittoria. E intanto Annie John cresce in una felice solitudine, al centro dell’universo della sua bellissima, giovane madre. Ma poi, la catastrofe: Annie «diventa signorina», e la madre, che come una divinità può dare e togliere tutto, incomprensibilmente si trasforma in un’algida nemica. «Io vivevo in un paradiso così» dice Annie dei suoi anni di bambina; ma ogni paradiso ha il suo «orribile serpente», e sarà un tormentoso duello quotidiano a scandire il suo furente ingresso nell’adolescenza.
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Author : Jamaica Kincaid
language : es
Publisher: LUMEN
Release Date : 2023-05-11
Annie John written by Jamaica Kincaid and has been published by LUMEN this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-11 with Fiction categories.
Una de las novelas de iniciación más celebradas de todos los tiempos, premiada con la Center for Fiction's Clifton Fadiman Medal, que consagró a la candidata al Nobel Jamaica Kincaid. «Una de las pocas escritoras angloparlantes actuales a las que nunca querría dejar de leer». Susan Sontag En la apacible isla tropical de Antigua, Annie John vive su infancia en un entorno paradisiaco, al amparo de sus padres y educada en un buen colegio. Pero, como en la mayoría de los paraísos, en algún oscuro rincón acecha la serpiente. A medida que Annie deja atrás la niñez, las inevitables transformaciones físicas y emocionales anuncian otra etapa, marcada por la rebeldía, el cuestionamiento de su pequeño universo y, para su disgusto, los cambios en su progenitora, quien de pronto sustituye su amor incondicional por una desconcertante rivalidad femenina. Al término de la etapa escolar, Annie deja atrás Antigua y a los suyos, pero arrastra consigo el duelo por la madre a la que antaño amó. Con su estilo lúcido y esencial y una voz urgente, desgarradora y universalmente familiar, Jamaica Kincaid desarrolla el tema que está en el corazón de su obra: la ambivalencia de los vínculos maternos y la difícil transición de la niñez a la adolescencia. La crítica ha dicho: «Fuentes bien informadas de Estocolmo llevan unos cuantos años susurrando el nombre de Jamaica Kincaid como seria candidata al Premio Nobel de Literatura». Xavi Ayén, La Vanguardia «Una escritora irresistible, sobrecogedora, espléndida en su sencillez». Susan Sontag «Una historia tan conmovedora y familiar que cualquiera puede verse reflejadoen ella, y esa es la mayor fuerza de la novela, su sabiduría, su autenticidad». The New York Times Book Review «Una novela de iniciación mágica, poética e intensamente emotiva». Booklist «Una novela cuya poesía sesustenta en los detalles, en la cuidadosa representación de la vida de esta heroína adolescente». The Washington Post «La tradicional historia del paso de la niñez a la adolescencia adquiere aquí un intenso y extraño brillo». Los Angeles Times «No se me ocurre ningún otro escritor cuya voz contenga tal intensidad de rabia y amor. Es un sonido mágico, bíblico y lleno de música». Mona Simpson, The Paris Review «Una de las narradoras más intensas y explosivas del momento». Fernanda Eberstadt, The New York Times Book Review «Una de las [escritoras] más respetadas de las letras estadounidenses. [...] Fundamental». Elena Hevia, El Periódico «Sus libros son crudos, excesivos y sobre todo hermosos, porque obedecen al deseo antiguo y crucial de trajinar largamente hasta conseguir un poco de belleza entre las ruinas». Alejandro Zambra, Letras Libres «Cuando escribe una frase [...], esta parece descubrirse a sí misma y cómo se siente [el narrador]. Y esto es asombroso, porque una cosa es ser capaz de enunciar bien y otra muy distinta captar la temperatura del narrador, sus emociones». Derek Walcott, Premio Nobel de Literatura «La fuerza arrolladora de las historias de Kincaid reside en su capacidad de resistirse a todos los cánones. Se mueven al ritmo de un tambor y al ritmo del jazz». Giovanna Covi «Una prosa precisa, irónica y evocadora. [...] La soberbia concisión de su estilo la convierte en un modelo de cómo esquivar muchas trampas novelísticas». Jane Smiley, The Guardian
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Author : Jamaica Kincaid
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 1997-06
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For use in schools and libraries only. The theme of lost childhood remains constant in this short fictional narrative of rebellious Annie John's coming of age on the small island of Antigua.
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Author : Jamaica Kincaid
language : da
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
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Author : Jamaica Kincaid
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
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Jamaica Kincaid
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Author : Moira Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 1994
Jamaica Kincaid written by Moira Ferguson and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Literary Collections categories.
As a writer who has been quoted as saying she writes to save her life- that is she couldn't write, she would be a revolutionary- Antiguan novelist Jamaica Kincaid translates this passion into searing, exhilarating prose. Her weaving of history, autobiography, fiction, and polemic has won her a large readership. In this first book-length study of her work, Moira Ferguson examines all of Kincaid's writing up to 1992, focusing especially o their entwinement of personal and political identity. In doing so, she draws a parallel between the dynamics of the mother-daughter relationship in Kincaid's fiction and the more political relationship of the colonizer and the colonized. Ferguson calls this effect the "doubled mother"- a conception of motherhood as both colonial and biological.
What John Marco Saw
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Author : Annie Barrows
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2019-10-01
What John Marco Saw written by Annie Barrows and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
John Marco is small. And everyone around him is busy. Too busy to listen to John Marco. John Marco is busy, too—noticing the world around him. Maybe everyone should slow down and listen to John Marco. If they do, they might discover some pretty amazing things. They just need to pay attention. Like John Marco does. Bestselling author Annie Barrows has a singular talent for creating stories that speak directly to young readers. Here, in her first picture book, she celebrates the importance of slowing down as she reminds us that sometimes the smallest people have the biggest things to say.