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Publisher: Mapart Publishing
Keywords: jamaica
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2001-12
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 3895258253
ISBN-13: 9783895258251

Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: novel, lucy
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2002-09-04
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0374527350
ISBN-13: 9780374527358

The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid’s most admired creations--newly available in paperbackLucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and Mariah are a thrice-blessed couple--handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Yet, alomst at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful facade. With mingled anger and compassion, Lucy scrutinizes the assumptions and verities of her employers’ world and compares them with the vivid realities of her native place. Lucy has no illusions

Author: Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher: Avon
Keywords: inn, jamaica
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1995-06-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0380725398
ISBN-13: 9780380725397

The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coast. But young Mary Yellan chose instead to honor her mother’s dying request that she join her frightened Aunt Patience and huge, hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn at Jamaica Inn. From her first glimpse on that raw November eve, she could sense the inn’s dark power. But never did Mary dream that she would become hopelessly ensnared in the vile, villainous schemes being hatched within its crumbling walls -- or that a handsome, mysterious stranger would so incite her passions ... tempting her to

Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: novel, potter
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2003-07-16
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0374528748
ISBN-13: 9780374528744

The story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home: “Kincaid’s most poetic and affecting novel to date” (Robert Antoni, The Washington Post Book World)Jamaica Kincaid’s first obssession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffeur who makes his living along the roads that pass through the only towns he has ever seen and the graveyard where he will be buried. The sun shines squarely overhead, the ocean lies on every side, and suppressed passion fills the air.Ignoring the legacy of his father, a poor fisherman, and his mo

Author: Juanita Havill
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: tag, jamaica
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1990-09-24
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0395549493
ISBN-13: 9780395549490

Jamaica doesn’t want a younger child to play with her, until she remembers how she felt when her older brother excluded her from his games.

Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: place, small
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2000-04-28
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0374527075
ISBN-13: 9780374527075

A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ."So begins Jamaica Kincaid’s expansive essay, which shows us what we ha

Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Plume
Keywords: mother, autobiography
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1997-01-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0452274664
ISBN-13: 9780452274662

After her mother dies at birth, Xuela is left by her father with his laundress for the next seven years in a home where she feels no love or affection, so when she moves in with her father’s friends, the LaBattes, she finds pleasure however she can. Reprint. NYT.