Mr Potter - Brossura

Kincaid, Jamaica

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099445131 ISBN 13: 9780099445135

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2003

Riassunto

In this luminous, bewitching new novel Jamaica Kincaid tells the story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home. The island of Antigua comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffer who makes his living driving a navy blue Hillman along the wide-open roads that pass the only towns he has ever seen and the graveyard where he will be buried. The sun shines squarely overhead, the ocean lies on every side and suppressed passion fills the air. Kincaid conjures up a moving picture of Mr Potter's youth - beginning with memories of his father, a poor fisherman, and his mother, who committed suicide - and the outside world, that presses in on his life. Within these confines, Mr Potter struggles to live at ease: to buy his own car, to have girlfriends, to shake off the encumbrance of his many daughters, one of whom will return to Antigua after he dies, to tell his story with equal measures of distance and sympathy. In Mr Potter Jamaica Kincaid brings alive a figure unlike any in contemporary fiction, an individual consciousness emerging gloriously out of an unexamined life to cast a long shadow.

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

'Kincaid weaves her words in circles and echoes-building to a slow calypso-A mesmeric story about small people whose lives glow large' Daily Mail

L'autore:

Jamaica Kincaid's most recent books are Talk Stories, a compilation of her writing published in The New Yorker, and My Favourite Plant, an anthology of writing on plants which she edited. In 2000 she was awarded the Prix Femina Etranger for My Brother.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0099445131
• ISBN 13: 9780099445135
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208