Jamaica Kincaid Annie John review, recensie en informatie roman over Antigua uit 1985 van de op het eiland geboren schrijfster. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over het boek Annie John van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Jamaica Kincaid. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.
Jamaica Kincaid Annie John review en recensie
- “What a writer – elegant, uncompromising, simultaneously direct and layered and complex.” (Ali Smith)
- “An unaffectedly sumptuous, irresistible writer … thrilling.” (Susan Sontag)
- “So touching and familiar it could be happening to any of us … and that’s exactly the book’s strength, its wisdom, its truth.” (The New York Times Book Review)
- “So neon-bright that the traditional story of a young girl’s passage into adolescence takes on a shimmering strangeness.” (Elaine Kendall, Los Angeles Times)
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Annie John
- Auteur: Jamaica Kincaid (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: coming of age-roman over Antigua uit 1985
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Picador Collection
- Omvang: 160 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de roman van Jamaica Kincaid over Antigua
A haunting and tragicomic tale of the end of childhood, Annie John is told with Jamaica Kincaid’s trademark candour and complexity, and is a true coming-of-age classic.
An adored only child growing up in Antigua, Annie has until recently lived a peaceful and content life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful and influential presence, who sits at the very centre of the little girl’s existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother’s shadow.
When she turns twelve, however, Annie’s life changes, in ways that are often mysterious to her. She begins to question the cultural assumptions of her island world; at school she makes rebellious friends and frequently challenges authority; and most frighteningly, her mother, seeing Annie as a ‘young lady’, ceases to be the source of unconditional adoration and takes on the new and unfamiliar guise of adversary.
Jamaica Kincaid was born on 25 May 1949 in St. John’s, Antigua, as Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson. Kincaid’s mother removed her from school at 16 to help support the family when her third and last brother was born, because her stepfather was ill and could no longer provide for the family. when Kincaid was 17, her mother sent her
to Scarsdale, a wealthy suburb of New York City, to work as an au pair. refused to send money home and was cut off from her family until her return to Antigua 20 years later. Before she wrote her debut novel Annie John, she wrote short stories wich wehere published in magazines like Rolling Stone and The New Yorker and the new papers The New York Times. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, and My Brother. She lives with her family in Vermont.Bijpassende boeken