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The Autobiography of My Mother Джамайка Кинкейд
ISBN: 9780374531874 Год издания: 2013 Издательство: Straus and Giroux, Farrar The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of a character, an account of one woman’s inexorable evolution evoked in startling and magical poetry.
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The Autobiography of My Mother Jamaica Kincaid
Год издания: 1996 Издательство: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Straus and Giroux Powerful, disturbing, stirring, Jamaica Kincaid’s novel is the deeply charged story of a woman’s life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, loses her mother to death the moment she is born and must find her way on her own. Kincaid takes us from Xuela’s childhood in a home where she could hear the song of the sea to the tin-roofed room where she lives as a schoolgirl in the house of Jack Labatte, who becomes her first lover. Xuela develops a passion for the stevedore Roland, who steals bolts of Irish linen for her from the ships he unloads, but she…