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Annie John - Jamaica Kincaid
Annie John
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780374902308 (0374902305)
Publisher: Noonday Press
Edition language: English
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4.0 Annie John
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...
Merle
Merle rated it
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...
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3.0
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.
janeg
janeg rated it
The prose is very pretty but the narrative does not speak to me.
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