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At the Bottom of the River

By: Jamaica Kincaid
Narrated by: Robin Miles
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At the Bottom of the River is Jamaica Kincaid’s first published work, a selection of inter-connected prose poems told from the perspective of a young Afro-Caribbean girl.

Collecting pieces written for the New Yorker and the Paris Review between 1978 and 1982, including the seminal ‘Girl’, these stunning works announced a fully-formed, generational talent and firmly established the themes that Kincaid would continue to return to in her later work: the loss of childhood, the fractious nature of mother-daughter relationships, the intangible beauty of the natural world and the striving for independence in a colonial landscape.

Powerful and lyrical, this is an unforgettable collection from a unique and necessary literary voice.

Part of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature.

©2017 Jamaica Kincaid (P)2017 Blackstone Audio Inc
Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Short Stories Women's Fiction World Literature
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