Annie John
Since her first prize-winning collection of stories, At the Bottom of the River, Jamaica Kincaid has been met with nothing short of amazement. With Annie John, the story of a young girl coming of age in Antigua, Kincaid tears open the theme that lies at the heart of all her fierce, incantatory...
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Since her first prize-winning collection of stories, At the Bottom of the River, Jamaica Kincaid has been met with nothing short of amazement. With Annie John, the story of a young girl coming of age in Antigua, Kincaid tears open the theme that lies at the heart of all her fierce, incantatory novels: the ambivalent and essential bonds created by a mother's love.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780452263567 (0452263565)
Publish date: May 1st 1986
Publisher: Plume
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Annie John is the coming-of-age story of a 10 year old Antiguan girl. It’s a quick read; the thoughts of a very curious young girl obsessed with death and slowly taking in all the nuances that surround her, who becomes a highly intelligent adolescent who is uninterested in most things. Annie is very...
This book gets points for a polished, literary writing style, but it is just so short, and most of it summarized. Its eight chapters could almost work as short stories, and Kincaid’s style often involves paragraphs that go on for a page or more, with few dramatized scenes.This book is a coming-of-ag...
For realism this was really good! It read like a kind of autobiography, and it had an autobiographical charm. It described all the ins and outs of reality and contradictions and it was just very human. Not lively, exaggerated, or cartoon-y material! Very subdued, like real life.
The prose is very pretty but the narrative does not speak to me.
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