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The Autobiography of My Mother Audio CD – 13 December 2016

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From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal comes an unforgettable novel of one woman's courageous coming of age.

Powerful, disturbing, and stirring, Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, the 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 own.

Jamaica Kincaid takes us from Xuela's childhood in a home where she can hear the song of the sea to the tin-roofed room where she lives as a schoolgirl in the house of Jack LaBatte, who becomes her first lover. Xuela develops a passion for the stevedore Roland, who steals bolts of Irish linen for her from the ships he unloads, but she eventually marries an English doctor, Philip Bailey. Xuela's intensely physical world is redolent of overripe fruit, gentian violet, sulfur, and rain on the road. It seethes with her sorrow, her deep sympathy for those who share her history, her fear of her father, and her desperate loneliness. But underlying all is ''the black room of the world'' that is Xuela's barrenness and life without a mother.

The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of character, an account of one woman's inexorable evolution, evoked in startling and magical poetry.

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Publisher : Blackstone Audio, Inc.; Unabridged Audio edition (13 December 2016)
Language : English
Audio CD : 1 pages
ISBN-10 : 1504743199
ISBN-13 : 978-1504743198

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''Fierce, incantory . . . lyrical . . . powerful and disturbing.'' --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

''Kincaid, always an elegant stylist, makes this story of a simple woman extraordinary . . . filling her prose with rich, poetic detail . . . An unforgettable account of singular survival.'' --San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

''A book that comes both to haunt and to dazzle us . . . [Kincaid] writes like an angel: with enviable lucidity and precision and a lyric touch that frequently aspires to the condition of poetry.'' --Boston Sunday Globe

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Jamaica Kincaid, born in St. John's, Antigua, is the author of short stories, novels, and nonfiction. Her 2013 novel See Now Then was a New York Times bestseller. A former reporter for the New Yorker magazine, she is a professor of literature at Claremont-McKenna College in California.

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Alex Walker

Jamaica Kincaid

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 August 2013

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Why had I never heard of this writer before? In this book, An Autobiography of My Mother, she describes the life a woman born alone, outside her family, outside her society on an island seen by its owners (the British) as far away and of no consequence. But the character reclaims herself from all this rejection and although she remains internally flawed, she ends up empowered by her insight. I loved the images of the warmth and colour of a Caribbean island contrasted with the dinginess of its squalour. From a woman's perspective, she celebrates her sexuality in a handful of exquisitely erotic moments. Now I just want to read more Jamaica Kincaid.

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Amazing first edition

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I love this book and the writing. I was looking for a copy after someone borrowed mine and never gave it back. I didn't expect to find a first edition that was in impeccable condition and arrived in no time. Beautiful book and so happy with it. I would definitely buy from this store again.

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book for reading

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 November 2017

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Nothing to dislike

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Ho apprezzato la tenacia della protagonista nella conquista del suo posto nella società. Però mi ha annoiato.Interessante per la
descrizione degli ambienti.

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