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200129795New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo in dustwrapper. 247 pp. Foreword by Ian Frazier. A collection of Kincaid's writings in the New Yorker. A very good copy in dustwrapper. SIGNED by Kincaid on the half-title page and INSCRIBED on the title page Farrar Straus Giroux hardcover books
2001287490New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2001. First. hardcover. fine/very good. 8vo 1/2 white cloth d.w. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2001. Very good<br/><br/> Collection of the author's writings from 1978 to 1983 that were published in The New Yorker magazine.<br/><br/> Farrar Straus & Giroux unknown books
201379322NY:: Farrar Straus and Giroux. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2013. Hardcover. 9780374180560 . A novel. First printing. INSCRIBED by the author. Near fine in a near fine two small black smudges dust jacket. . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hardcover books
20022271507Farrar Straus & Giroux 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author without inscription. An excellent copy. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 195 pp. "Jamaica Kincaid's first obsession the island of Antigua comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter an illiterate taxi chauffeur who makes his living along the wide open roads that pass the only towns he has ever seen and the graveyard where he will be buried. The sun shines squarely overhead the ocean lies on every side and suppressed passion fills the air. Misery infects the unstudied slow pace of this island and of Mr. Potter's days. As Kincaid's narrative unfolds in linked vignettes his story becomes the story of a vital crippled community. Kincaid strings together a moving picture of Mr. Potter's ancestors -- beginning with memories of his father a poor fisherman and his mother who committed suicide -- and the outside world that presses in on his life in the form of his Lebanese employer and later a couple fleeing World War II. Within these surroundings Mr. Potter struggles to live at ease: to purchase a car to have girlfriends to shake off the encumbrance of his daughters -- one of whom will return to Antigua after he dies and will tell his story with equal measures of distance and sympathy. In Mr. Potter her most luminous ambitious work to date Kincaid breathes life into a figure unlike any in contemporary fiction an individual consciousness emerging gloriously out of an unexamined life. Farrar, Straus & Giroux hardcover books
20022310662New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2002. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Minor ink marginalia. 2002 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. Lucy a teenage girl from the West Indies comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and Mariah are a thrice-blessed couple--handsome rich and seemingly happy. Yet alomst at once Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful facade. With mingled anger and compassion Lucy scrutinizes the assumptions and verities of her employers' world and compares them with the vivid realities of her native place. Lucy has no illusions about her own past but neither is she prepared to be deceived about where she presently is. Farrar, Straus & Giroux paperback books
