Autobiography of My Mother
by KINCAID, Jamaica
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the haunting, deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, grows up in a harsh, loveless world after her mother dies in childbirth. Xuela’s narrative provides a rich, vivid exploration of the Caribbean and the pervasive influence of colonialism. The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of a character, an account of one woman's inexorable evolution evoked in startling and magical poetry.
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- Seller
- Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 20297
- Title
- Autobiography of My Mother
- Author
- KINCAID, Jamaica
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Black Literature, ARC, Proofs And Advance Reading Copies
- Bookseller catalogs
- Proofs and Advance Reading Copies;
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Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB
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