Name: Mr. Potter: A Novel
Price: 364.00 ZAR
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Author: Jamaica Kincaid
ISBN: 9781250340658

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jamaica Kincaid

Publisher

Picador

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781250340658

Mr. Potter: A Novel

Jamaica Kincaid (Author) · Picador · Paperback

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Synopsis "Mr. Potter: A Novel "

The "revelatory" (The New York Review of Books) story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home. Jamaica Kincaid's first obsession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate chauffeur who makes his living along the wide, open roads that pass the only towns he has ever seen. The sun shines squarely overhead, the ocean lies on every side, and suppressed passion fills the air. As Mr. Potter's narrative unfolds in linked vignettes, his story becomes the story of a vital, damaged community. Amid his surroundings, he struggles to live at ease: to purchase a car, to have girlfriends, and to shake off the encumbrance of his daughters--one of whom will return to Antigua after he dies and tell his story with equal measures of distance and sympathy. In Mr. Potter, Kincaid breathes life into a figure unlike any other in contemporary fiction, an individual consciousness emerging gloriously out of an unexamined life.

Jamaica Kincaid

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Jamaica Kincaid (born Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson in 1949, Saint John's, Antigua and Barbuda) is a Caribbean-American writer and essayist known for her lyrical style and focus on themes such as identity, colonialism, and family relationships. At 17, she moved to New York, where she worked as an au pair and later adopted the pseudonym Jamaica Kincaid. She collaborated with The New Yorker magazine from 1976 to 1995. Currently, she resides in Vermont and has been a professor at Harvard University

Among her most notable works are Annie John (1985), A Small Place (1988), Lucy (1990), The Autobiography of My Mother (1995), My Brother (1997), and Mr. Potter (2002). Her work has been translated into multiple languages and has received awards such as the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the Prix Femina Étranger. Kincaid is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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