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At the Bottom of the River is a collection of short stories by Caribbean novelist Jamaica Kincaid. Published in 1983, it was her first short story collection. The collection consists of ten inter-connected short stories, seven of which were previously published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review between 1978 and 1982.
At the Bottom of the River. Jamaica Kincaid. 3.76. 2,073 ratings273 reviews. Jamaica Kincaid's inspired, lyrical short stories. Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants.
25 de abr. de 1982 · Fiction. At the Bottom of the River. By Jamaica Kincaid. April 25, 1982. Photograph by Jean Gaumy / Magnum. This, then, is the terrain.
Complete summary of Jamaica Kincaid's At the Bottom of the River. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of At the Bottom of the River.
At the Bottom of the River is a collection of semi-autobiographical prose poems written by Jamaica Kincaid. She grew up in Antigua, encountering some unique difficulties as a girl in the Afro-Caribbean. These poems, though disconnected, relate to one another because they form the narrative of one girl growing up into maturity in the Afro-Caribbean.
9 de jun. de 2009 · At the bottom of the river. Girl -- In the night -- At last -- Wingless -- Holidays -- The letter from home -- What I have been doing lately -- Blackness -- My mother -- At the bottom of...
In 1983 Kincaid’s first book, At the Bottom of the River, a collection of short stories and reflections, was published. Setting a pattern for her later work, it mixed lyricism and anger. Annie John (1984) and Lucy (1990) were novels but were autobiographical in nature, as were most of Kincaid’s…
