Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974- by Kincaid, Jamaica

Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974-

My ignorance was on my side. I wasn't afraid. I didn't know what to be afraid of....
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Author: Jamaica Kincaid
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Language: English
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Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974- by Kincaid, Jamaica

Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974-

$45.58

Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974-

$45.58
Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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 Together is 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.

Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 08/05/2025
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.33w x 1.14d
ISBN: 9780374613235


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2025
Publishers Weekly 06/02/2025
Booklist 08/01/2025

About the Author
Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John's, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, My Brother, Mr. Potter, See Now Then, and, with Kara Walker, An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children. She lives in Vermont.

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