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Talk Stories
From "The Talk of the Town," Jamaica Kincaid's first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York
Talk Pieces is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original writing for the New Yorker's "Talk of the Town," composed during the time when she first came to the United States from Antigua, from 1978 to 1983. Kincaid found a unique voice, at once in sync with William Shawn's tone for...more
Talk Pieces is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original writing for the New Yorker's "Talk of the Town," composed during the time when she first came to the United States from Antigua, from 1978 to 1983. Kincaid found a unique voice, at once in sync with William Shawn's tone for...more
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
January 9th 2002
by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
(first published January 1st 2001)
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I read this book several years ago, and I remember loving it. It chronicles Jamaica Kincaid's beginnings as a writer. She's one of my favorite authors.
I got this book from Crystal, and it was the perfect bus/carry around book. It's a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's short "talk of the town" pieces for the New Yorker, and it has lots of interesting details about life in New York in the 1970's as well as just some beautiful writing. I really loved it--I'd be glad to lend it out, too.
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Anyone who's read "The New Yorker" and hated it.
On the cover, Ms. Kincaid looks like a child, but really, she was in her twenties.
Laugh-out-loud funny, and bare-boned as The Glass house, I wish I could go back in time and be her friend a bit.
Laugh-out-loud funny, and bare-boned as The Glass house, I wish I could go back in time and be her friend a bit.
very short shorts, and factual, conversational recaps like journal entries.
Bone-dry hilarious.
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Jamaica Kincaid is a novelist, gardener, and former reporter for The New Yorker Magazine. She is a Professor of Literature at Claremont-McKenna College.
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