Jamaica Kincaid
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place of birth
Antigua and Barbuda
genre
Literature & Fiction, Home & Garden
about this author
Jamaica Kincaid is a novelist, gardener, and former reporter. She is a Professor of Literature at Claremont-McKenna College.
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A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid avg rating 3.87 — 815 ratings — published 1988 8 editions |
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Annie John: A Novel by Jamaica Kincaid avg rating 3.49 — 582 ratings — published 1981 14 editions |
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Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid avg rating 3.71 — 491 ratings — published 1996 7 editions |
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Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid avg rating 3.72 — 468 ratings — published 1991 10 editions |
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My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid avg rating 3.55 — 228 ratings — published 1997 10 editions |
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At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid avg rating 3.93 — 148 ratings — published 1983 7 editions |
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The Best American Travel Writing 2005 by Jamaica Kincaid , Jason Wilson avg rating 4.03 — 63 ratings — published 2005 |
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My Garden (Book) by Jamaica Kincaid avg rating 3.61 — 59 ratings — published 1999 3 editions |
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Mr.Potter by Jamaica Kincaid avg rating 3.39 — 56 ratings — published 2002 4 editions |
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Talk Stories by Jamaica Kincaid, Ian Frazier avg rating 3.96 — 46 ratings — published 2001 4 editions |
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"You are not an ugly person all the time; you are not an ugly person ordinarily; you are not an ugly person day to day. From day to day, you are a nice person. From day to day, all the people who are supposed to love you on the whole do. From day to day, as you walk down a busy street in the large and modern and prosperous city in which you work and lie, dismayed and puzzled at how alone you can feel in this crowd, how awful it is to go unnoticed, how awful it is to go unloved, even as you are surrounded by more people than you could possibly get to know in a lifetime that lasted for millennia and then out of the corner of your eye you see someone looking at you and absolute pleasure is written all over the person's face, and then you realize that you are not as revolting a presence as you think you are. And so, ordinarily, you are a nice person, an attractive person, a person capable of drawing to yourself the affection of other people, a person at home in your own skin: a person at home in your own house, with its nice backyard, at home on your street, your church, in community activities, your job, at home with your family, your relatives, your friends - you are a whole person."
— Jamaica Kincaid (A Small Place)
— Jamaica Kincaid (A Small Place)
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"...often a thing that is ugly is ugly in itself, and often a thing that is ugly is only a thing that is forgotten, kept from view and kept from memory, and often a thing that is ugly is not only a definition of beauty itself but also renders beauty as something beyond words or beyond any kind of description."
— Jamaica Kincaid
— Jamaica Kincaid
"Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself?"
— Jamaica Kincaid (Lucy)
— Jamaica Kincaid (Lucy)
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