Name: Talk Stories
SKU: 55724648
Price: 725.00 TWD
Availability: InStock
Author: Jamaica Kincaid
ISBN: 9781250340627

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jamaica Kincaid

Publisher

Picador

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781250340627

Talk Stories

Jamaica Kincaid (Author) · Picador · Paperback

Cheaper New Book Imported to Taiwan

Delivery: 14 Oct - 23 Oct

NT$ 725

Faster New Book Imported to Taiwan

Delivery: 30 Sep - 09 Oct

NT$ 740

NT$ 725

Add to Wishlist

Synopsis "Talk Stories "

Jamaica Kincaid's collected writings for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" record her first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York.Talk Stories is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original writing for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town," composed during the time when she first arrived in the United States from Antigua, from 1978 to 1983. Kincaid developed a unique voice, both in sync with William Shawn's tone for the quintessential elite magazine and (though unsigned) all her own--wonderingly alive to the ironies and screwball details that characterized her adopted city. The book also reflects Kincaid's development as a young writer--the newcomer who sensitively records her impressions here takes root to become one of our most respected authors.

Jamaica Kincaid

(Author)

View Author's Page

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.

See less