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Putting Myself Together

Putting Myself Together

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Publisher's Synopsis

A landmark collection of essays by the iconic writer Jamaica Kincaid.

'An unaffectedly sumptuous, irresistible writer'
- Susan Sontag
'What a writer' - Ali Smith
'Both a daughter of Brontë and Woolf and her own inimitable self' The Wall Street Journal
'If you are new to Kincaid, I envy you' - Jackie Kay

That's the way I write. It's never going to stop. And the more it makes people annoyed the more I will do it.

Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson in Antigua in 1949. She has always been herself. Her work began to be published after she moved to New York at the age of nineteen, and by 1974 she was contributing to The New Yorker's 'Talk of the Town' column, where she later became a staff writer.

This is is a blazing collection that spans more than five decades of Jamaica Kincaid's writing. From Muhammad Ali, Diana Ross, gardening and motherhood, to colonialism and the act of writing, Putting Myself Together shows how this witty and fearless writer became one of the most remarkable and influential voices of a generation.

About the Publisher

Picador

Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.

Book information

ISBN: 9781035036103
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
DEWEY: 818.608
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 352
Weight: -1g
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm