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Title: Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid ISBN: 0-374-52510-2 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.63 (59 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Where The Motherly Instinct Comes From
Comment: Kincaid does a great job of expressing a young girls jouney into her women hood. The book also talks a lot about how Annie John recieves all of her independece and motherly instinct. Kincaid tells the story of Annie John in such a way you could almost think that it is kincaid herself telling her childhood stories. The character is strong, determined and is a very intellegent women. Kincaid does a fantastic job of showing how a daughter is just like her mother while she grows up and when she grows up. These elements along with the ease at which this story can be read makes it great for all ages to read. The story also lets you analyze the many themes and magic that the carribean island posses.
Rating: 5
Summary: maybe only adults can bear to look back
Comment: Annie John is about a daughter in the throes of conflict with her mother. She is finding out about mortality and sexuality and that her mother regards her as rival for her father's attention.
When a group of high school students read this book in my class eight years ago, the boys in the back row all whined about reading "girl stuff." Presumedly they're older now and would have some interest in the struggles of their mothers, daughters, sisters, and lovers... not to mention themselves. After all, don't we all go through a period of gaining vision and resenting it simultaneously?
I was caught with the opening scene, Annie John sees people dressed in black and some in white bobbing in the distance. What is it? she asks her mother, who tells her it must be the funeral of a child since such burials are always held in the morning. "Until then, I had not known that children could die."
Rating: 5
Summary: A book of wonder
Comment: A book of wonder. Brilliantly written. I was not able to put it down. A devine creature must have guided Kincaid's hand.
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Title: Lucy: A Novel by Jamaica Kincaid ISBN: 0374527350 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 04 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid ISBN: 0374527075 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid ISBN: 0374525625 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid ISBN: 0452274664 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid ISBN: 0374527342 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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