Jamaica Kincaid: Putting Myself Together, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Putting Myself Together
- Writing 1974-
- Publisher:
- Picador USA, 08/2026
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781250437884
- Item number:
- 12428445
- Volume:
- 336 Pages
- Weight:
- 454 g
- Format:
- 210 x 137 mm
- Thickness:
- 25 mm
- Release date:
- 4.8.2026
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Other releases of Putting Myself Together |
Price |
|---|---|
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 14.89* |
| Buch, Gebunden, Englisch | EUR 26.58* |
| Buch, Gebunden, Englisch | EUR 28.41* |
Blurb
Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
My ignorance was on my side. I wasn't afraid. I didn't know what to be afraid of. I did one thing, I did another. I did what I now call crashing about. One day I started to write.
This collection of Jamaica Kincaid's nonfiction writing, including early pieces from publications such as The New Yorker , The Village Voice , and Ms. , proves what her admirers have always known: from the start, she has been a consummate stylist, and she has always been herself.
From "Jamaica Kincaid's New York," which narrates her move to the city from Antigua at the age of sixteen and a half, to the classic "Biography of a Dress," her cultural criticism, and her original thinking about the meaning of the garden, Kincaid writes about the world as she finds it, imparting her own quizzical, rapier-sharp response to whatever crosses her path.
Putting Myself Togetheris a brilliant, trenchant, hilarious self-portrait of the artist and a testament to how this inimitable, self-created mind and spirit, endowed with wit, humor, and fearlessness, has become one of our greatest, most original writers.
Biography
Jamaica Kincaid wurde 1949 auf der Karibikinsel Antigua geboren. Mit sechzehn Jahren wanderte sie in die USA aus, wo sie zunächst als Au-pair-Mädchen arbeitete. Kincaid hat mehrere Prosabände und Romane veröffentlicht. Ihre Werke wurden mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet. Sie unterrichtet Literatur am kalifornischen Claremont McKenna College und an der Harvard University.