An edition of Annie John (1983)

Annie John

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An edition of Annie John (1983)

Annie John

  • 4.3 (3 ratings) ·
  • 156 Want to read
  • 8 Currently reading
  • 6 Have read

"Episodes from the young life of Annie John, aged 10 to 17, as she grows up on the Caribbean island of Antigua. This is a magical coming-of-age tale, ripe with the special ambience of its tropical setting and sustained by Annie's far from naive awareness of the world around her. Death, illness, and poverty intrude on the narrator's perceptive sensilibity from time to time, but even these experiences instruct her and expand her understanding of life and its shifting reality. Although Annie leaves Antigua at the end of the novel for a new role as a student in England, the hollowness she feels at her departure is balanced by the new self that awaits her as she begins the search for her own identity. A poetic and intensely moving work from the author of At the Bottom of the River. (Reviewed April 1, 1985)"--Booklist Review.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
148

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Cover of: Annie John
Annie John: A Novel
June 30, 1997, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
Cover of: Annie John
Annie John
1986, New American Library
in English
Cover of: Annie John
Annie John
1986, New American Library
in English
Cover of: Annie John
Annie John
1985, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
in English
Cover of: Annie John
Annie John
1983
in English

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Edition Notes

"A Plume book."

Published in
New York
Copyright Date
1985

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PR9275.A583 K5634 1986, PS3561.I425 A55 1986, PR9275.A583K5634

The Physical Object

Pagination
148 p. ;
Number of pages
148

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24763079M
Internet Archive
anniejohn1986kinc
ISBN 10
0452258170, 0452263565, 0452260167
ISBN 13
9780452258174, 9780452263567, 9780452260160
LCCN
85029760
OCLC/WorldCat
12977878

Work Description

Since her first, prize-winning collection of stories, At the Bottom of the River, Jamaica Kincaid's work has been met with nothing short of amazement. The New York Times hailed her "prophetic power" and the Los Angeles Times Book Review said: "No one else seems to be writing quite this way right now." With Annie John, the story of a young girl coming of age in Antigua, Kincaid tore open the theme that lies at the heart of all her fierce, incantatory novels: the ambivalent and essential bonds created by a mother's love. In this novel, written in Kincaid's lucid, elemental style, Annie John's ambivalence is universally familiar and wrenchingly real.

Excerpts

We were sure that the much-talked-about future that everybody was preparing us for would never come, for we had such a powerful feeling against it, and why shouldn't our will prevail this time? Sometimes when we looked at each other, it was all we could do not to cry out with happiness.
Page 50, added by lalala.

It encapsulates pre-pubescence, one of the main subjects of the story.

For a short while during the year I was ten, I thought only people I did not know died.
added anonymously.
For a short while during the year I was ten, I thought only people I did not know died.
added anonymously.

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