Mr. Potter - Softcover

Kincaid, Jamaica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374528748 ISBN 13: 9780374528744

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003

Synopsis

The story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home: "Kincaid's most poetic and affecting novel to date" (Robert Antoni, The Washington Post Book World)

Jamaica Kincaid's first obssession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffeur who makes his living along the roads that pass through 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.
Ignoring the legacy of his father, a poor fisherman, and his mother, who committed suicide, Mr. Potter struggles to live at ease amid his surroundings: to purchase a car, to have girlfriends, and to shake off the encumbrance of his daughters--one of whom will return to Antigua after he dies and tell his story with equal measures of distance and sympathy.

In Mr. Potter, Kincaid breathes life into a figure unlike any other in contemporary fiction, an individual consciousness emerging gloriously out of an unexamined life.

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Review:

" Kincaid has, magically, transformed the reader' s consciousness, so we realize with a shock that we' ve moved, with the narrator, from a coldhearted contempt for Mr. Potter to a kind of purified, unsentimental sympathy." -- Ben Neihart, "The Sun "(Baltimore)
"Kincaid has, magically, transformed the reader's consciousness, so we realize with a shock that we've moved, with the narrator, from a coldhearted contempt for Mr. Potter to a kind of purified, unsentimental sympathy." --Ben Neihart, "The Sun "(Baltimore)
“Kincaid has, magically, transformed the reader’s consciousness, so we realize with a shock that we’ve moved, with the narrator, from a coldhearted contempt for Mr. Potter to a kind of purified, unsentimental sympathy.” —Ben Neihart, "The Sun "(Baltimore)
Kincaid has, magically, transformed the reader's consciousness, so we realize with a shock that we've moved, with the narrator, from a coldhearted contempt for Mr. Potter to a kind of purified, unsentimental sympathy. "Ben Neihart, The Sun (Baltimore)""

"Kincaid has, magically, transformed the reader's consciousness, so we realize with a shock that we've moved, with the narrator, from a coldhearted contempt for Mr. Potter to a kind of purified, unsentimental sympathy." --Ben Neihart, The Sun (Baltimore)

Book Description:

'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

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0374528748
• ISBN 13: 9780374528744
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208