false 386336 14 Jamaica Kincaid beautifully delineates hatred and fear, because she knows they are often a step away from love and obsession. At the start of <I>Annie John,</I> her 10-year-old heroine is engulfed in family happiness and safety. Though Annie loves her father, she is all eyes for her mother. When she is almost 12, however, the idyll ends and she falls into deep disfavor. This inexplicable loss mars both lives, as each grows adept at public falsity and silent betrayal. The pattern is set, and extended: "And now I started a new series of betrayals of people and things I would have sworn only minutes before to die for." In front of Annie's father and the world, "We were politeness and kindness and love and laughter." Alone they are linked in loathing. Annie tries to imagine herself as someone in a book--an orphan or a girl with a wicked stepmother. The trouble is, she finds, those characters' lives always end happily. Luckily for us, though not perhaps for her alter ego, Kincaid is too truthful a writer to provide such a finale. 1123428 1981 Annie John: A Novel total:770|5:141|4:268|3:257|2:81|1:23| 770 2733 1067 82 3 0 false true Mon May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 15:02:34 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 17:35:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 true false Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Oct 04 15:00:16 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 08 18:27:04 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 06:38:09 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 07:24:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 14:00:47 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 15:32:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 12:19:34 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 12:27:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Jul 10 15:25:14 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 15:49:02 -0700 2009 1 I have learned that this book is a bildungsroman which is a novel about her life growing up and how she searches to find her new identity after so long following in her mother's foot steps. Annie also suffers a drastic mental breakdown later on in the book this happens because she always keeps in he...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Sat Aug 01 14:02:27 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 14:09:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Sep 17 09:17:22 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 09:20:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 15 20:03:13 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 20:06:28 -0700 2009 This book is refreshing, mysterious and beautiful. It is a nice reminder of what language can be and do. Annie is a deep character who is endearing and yet painfully real. I would recommend this to anyone who was a young girl or anyone who has imagined what it was like to be a...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Dec 25 11:54:36 -0800 2008 Wed Sep 09 13:12:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 11:07:34 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 11:11:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue May 19 09:23:57 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 09:23:57 -0700 2009 This is a beautiful book, this story of a girl growing up in Antigua. I’ve never read a clearer and more sensitive description of adolescence, and of the relationship between mother and daughter. You enter the character of Annie John absolutely, and see everything from her eyes.

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