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Annie John
Reader Score
70%
70% of readers
recommend this book
The essential, urgent coming-of-age novel by Jamaica Kincaid, a reinventor of the form.
Since her first, prizewinning collection of stories, At the Bottom of the River, Jamaica Kincaid's work has been met with nothing short of amazement. The New York Times hailed her "prophetic power" and the Los Angeles Times Book Review said, "No one else seems to be writing quite this way."
With Annie John, the story of a young girl coming of age in Antigua, Kincaid tore open the theme that lies at the heart of her fierce, incantatory novels: the ambivalent and essential bonds created by a mother's love. In this book, written in Kincaid's lucid, elemental style, Annie John's ambivalence is universally familiar and wrenchingly real.
Book Details
- Publisher: Picador USA
- Publish Date: Oct 8th, 2024
- Pages: 160
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.25in - 5.48in - 0.43in - 0.32lb
- EAN: 9781250322395
- Categories: • Coming of Age• Literary• World Literature - Caribbean & West Indies
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What people are saying
Idra Novey is a novelist.
Some short novels cut deeper and stay in the mind far longer than novels with four times as many pages. Kincaid’s Annie John is one of those... I wish I had come across this spare, sly, quietly fearless novel years ago. It’s tremendous.
Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953.
“The first novel I read by Jamaica Kincaid was Annie John, the first novel she wrote. She drafted it—as I recently learned from a long-awaited Art of Fiction interview conducted by Darryl Pinckney—out loud in the bath, while pregnant with her daughter.” https://t.co/lKC9rX250h
🍏Previously: Longest-serving publisher of the Virago Modern Classics/ Now: Taking a breath. Mother, reader, moocher, amateur allotmenteer
90s Harlem comes to London! I love seeing a book's literary DNA. When I read this beautiful coming-of-age story, it felt descended from Louise Meriwether's "Daddy was a Number Runner" & Jamaica Kincaid's "Annie John". Can't wait for you to read it. Published next month. https://t.co/RTW3EDpS82
Praise for this book
"So touching and familiar it could be happening to any of us . . . and that's exactly the book's strength, its wisdom, its truth." --The New York Times Book Review
"So neon-bright that the traditional story of a young girl's passage into adolescence takes on a shimmering strangeness." --Elaine Kendall, The Los Angeles Times
What people are saying
Idra Novey is a novelist.
Some short novels cut deeper and stay in the mind far longer than novels with four times as many pages. Kincaid’s Annie John is one of those... I wish I had come across this spare, sly, quietly fearless novel years ago. It’s tremendous.
Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953.
“The first novel I read by Jamaica Kincaid was Annie John, the first novel she wrote. She drafted it—as I recently learned from a long-awaited Art of Fiction interview conducted by Darryl Pinckney—out loud in the bath, while pregnant with her daughter.” https://t.co/lKC9rX250h