Awards
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction (nominee)
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PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction (nominee)
Jamaica Kincaid's inspired, lyrical short stories
Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naively whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is partially remembered partly divined. The memories often concern a childhood in the Caribbean--family, manners, and landscape--as distilled and transformed by Kincaid's special style and vision.
Kincaid leads her readers to consider, as if for the first time, the powerful ties between mother and child; the beauty and destructiveness of nature; the gulf between the masculine and the feminine; the significance of familiar things--a house, a cup, a pen. Transfiguring our human form and our surroundings--shedding skin, darkening an afternoon, painting a perfect place--these stories tell us something we didn't know, in a way we hadn't expected.
Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naively whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is partially remembered partly divined. The memories often concern a childhood in the Caribbean--family, manners, and landscape--as distilled and transformed by Kincaid's special style and vision.
Kincaid leads her readers to consider, as if for the first time, the powerful ties between mother and child; the beauty and destructiveness of nature; the gulf between the masculine and the feminine; the significance of familiar things--a house, a cup, a pen. Transfiguring our human form and our surroundings--shedding skin, darkening an afternoon, painting a perfect place--these stories tell us something we didn't know, in a way we hadn't expected.
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Used availability for Jamaica Kincaid's At the Bottom of the River
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Hardback Editions
1984 : Hardback
| Title: At The Bottom Of The River Author(s): Jamaica Kincaid Publisher: Picador Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
December 1983 : Hardback
| Title: At the Bottom of the River Author(s): Jamaica Kincaid ISBN: 0-374-10660-6 / 978-0-374-10660-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1983 : Hardback
| Title: At the bottom of the river Author(s): Jamaica Kincaid Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Paperback Editions
October 2000 : Paperback
| Title: At the Bottom of the River Author(s): Jamaica Kincaid ISBN: 0-374-52734-2 / 978-0-374-52734-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
November 1997 : Paperback
| Title: At the Bottom of the River Author(s): Jamaica Kincaid ISBN: 0-09-926802-7 / 978-0-09-926802-4 (UK edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
January 1992 : Paperback
| Title: At the Bottom of the River (Plume) Author(s): Jamaica Kincaid ISBN: 0-452-26754-4 / 978-0-452-26754-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Penguin Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 1985 : Paperback
| Title: AT BOTTOM OF THE RIVER Author(s): Jamaica Kincaid ISBN: 0-394-73683-4 / 978-0-394-73683-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
September 1984 : Paperback
| Title: At the Bottom of the River (Picador Books) Author(s): Jamaica Kincaid ISBN: 0-330-28515-7 / 978-0-330-28515-5 (UK edition) Publisher: Macmillan Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
September 1984 : Paperback
| Title: At the Bottom of the River (Picador Books) Author(s): Jamaica Kincaid ISBN: 0-330-28504-1 / 978-0-330-28504-9 (UK edition) Publisher: Picador Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
1983 : Unknown
| Title: At the Bottom of the River Author(s): Jamaica Kincaid Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
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