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Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974–
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A collection of the inimitable writer's essays, from her early days at The Village Voice through her time at The New Yorker. This collection of Jamaica Kincaid's nonfiction writings, from her early days at The New Yorker until now, amounts to a brilliant, hilarious, trenchant self-portrait of one of the most surprising and original writers we have. From the classic "Autobiography of a Dress" to her original thinking about the meaning of the garden, Kincaid writes about the world as she finds it, with her own quizzical, rapier-sharp response to reality that always takes the reader in new, life-enhancing directions. Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson in Antigua in 1949. She has always been herself. Putting Myself Together shows how this inimitable self-created mind and spirit, endowed with inimitable wit, humor, and fearlessness, has become one of our essential writers.
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"What she is able to do with her seemingly simple language choices is speak what is true while capturing her desire for it to not be."
"Kincaid's cutting prose shines, and the collection makes for a marvelous account of the author's life and career."
"If the essays in Putting Myself Together are noisier than some readers would like – more assured, more irreverent, more urgent – then it's worth asking why that might be."
"Kincaid's genius lies in the way she explicitly, unwaveringly foregrounds the facts of her life ..."
"I hope that Kincaid will write more on [the] complicated pleasure [of gardening]: the intimate dominion of the gardener in her garden ..."
"Reveal[s] new layers of insight and truth ..."
"A spirited miscellany."
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