| 1. |  | A Small Place from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $5.00 Customer Review:  The book is written in an angry tone which I believe would put most readers on the defense, rather than generating any sympathy for the writer's perspective. In her contempt for tourist's and Europeans, the author makes so many generalizations and expresses so much prejudice against these groups I... |
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| 2. |  | Lucy: A Novel from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $6.53 Customer Review:  The complex and seemingly sinister disposition of "Lucy", appropriately named as the feminine version of Lucifer, is told in a simplistically subtle beauty that was either appreciated or lost on the members of the Uptown Girls Harlem Book Club. The story is of a young Caribbean au pair who recounts... |
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| 3. |  | Annie John: A Novel from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $5.75 Customer Review: Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid is definitely not a story i would pick up on my own. It was assigned to me as reading for an English assignment and it met my somewhat low expectations. The story is of a girl figuring out the trials and tribulations of growing up in post colonial Antigua.The main... |
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| 4. |  | Autobiography of My Mother from Plume Price: $4.95 Customer Review:  In rich and poetic prose, Kincaid powerfully describes the life story of Xuela, a woman with an alienated and barren soul, who cannot love and does not want to be loved, yet surprisingly is very sensual. Kincaid points to the role of motherly love, and the bond to the homeland in forming the... |
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| 5. |  | Talk Stories from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $3.95 Customer Review: This book is a collection of her earlier anonymous columns for 'The New Yorker.' They were written in 70's and early 80's, so the subjects are old. For instance, Sting (and the Police) and Boy George (and Culture Club) were gaining popularity in the book. But she already established her crisp and... |
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| 6. |  | At the Bottom of the River from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $5.40 Customer Review: I got this book because it is one of the required books I need for my college class. When I began reading the book, I didn't like nor dislike the book because it is a strange book comparing to many books I have read so far in college and through out my life. This book consists of many ordinary... |
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| 7. |  | Jamaica Kincaid: Writing Memory, Writing Back to the Mother from State University of New York Press Price: $16.24 | |
| 8. |  | My Brother from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $5.15 Customer Review: I was tired of reading the book by the time I finally got through it. It wasn't very long but it was quite challenging for me to finish reading it. The author repeats herself a lot! Which does make for an interesting writing style. It seemed like it was a poetry of sorts; but I gave up that idea... |
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| 9. |  | Mr. Potter: A Novel from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $5.00 Customer Review: This is the most difficult, most pleasurable books I've read. From the first sentence, the first very, very, long sentence, Kincaid holds you in her arms and rocks you, forcing you to listen to the words and rhythms of Antigua. More than prose, this is poetry. You must pay attention to every... |
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| 10. |  | Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya (National Geographic Directions) from National Geographic Price: $4.97 Customer Review:  I am a world traveller. I love learning about other cultures first hand as well as reading about them. This book has great reviews. Unfortunately the people writing the reviews must have received a kick back. This was by far the worst written book I've ever read. It was like the author was forced to... |
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