Name: Lucy (in Spanish)
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Author: Jamaica Kincaid
ISBN: 9788481365511

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jamaica Kincaid

Publisher

Txalaparta, S.L.

Year

2009

Language

Spanish

Pages

200

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

13.5 x 21.5 cm

ISBN

8481365513

ISBN13

9788481365511

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Lucy (in Spanish)"

Lucy, una joven caribe¤a de 19 a¤os, llega a Estados Unidos paratrabajar como au pair en casa de una familia acomodada. Aqu¡, dondepara ella todo es desconocido, extra¤o y aparentemente perfecto,intenta escapar del pasado y dar un cambio a su vida. Pero losrecuerdos le impiden ser feliz, Lucy cree que hasta que no deje atr sla atormentada relaci¢n que mantiene con su madre no llegar aconvertirse en una mujer adulta. Y son muchas las cosas que lerecuerdan a ella en esta nueva vida. Obra cargada de referenciasautobiogr ficas, en la que Kincaid vuelve a ahondar en su mundointerior con una extra¤a fuerza desafiante y llena de franqueza.

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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