Lucy (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) - Hardcover

Kincaid, Jamaica

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816152012 ISBN 13: 9780816152018

Publisher: G K Hall & Co, 1991

Synopsis

Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to work as an au pair for a wealthy American couple, discovering the dark side behind their facade of happiness as she also awakens to her own sexuality

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Review:

"Beautifully precise prose . . . It leaves the reader with the unforgettable experience of having met a ferociously honest woman on her own uncompromising terms." --"The New York Times"
"Brilliant . . . "Lucy" confirms Ms. Kincaid as a both a daughter of Bronte and Woolf and her own inimitable self."--" Wall Street Journal"
"A furious, broken-hearted gem of a novel . . . Part of the richness of this book is the way we come to see, as Lucy struggles to do, the connections between those of us who have too much and those who will never have enough--and between 'a sentence for life' (what can't be changed in the self) and that which can be wrestled with and, at least, understood."--" San Francisco Chronicle"

Beautifully precise prose . . . It leaves the reader with the unforgettable experience of having met a ferociously honest woman on her own uncompromising terms. "The New York Times"

Brilliant . . . "Lucy" confirms Ms. Kincaid as a both a daughter of Bronte and Woolf and her own inimitable self. "Wall Street Journal"

A furious, broken-hearted gem of a novel . . . Part of the richness of this book is the way we come to see, as Lucy struggles to do, the connections between those of us who have too much and those who will never have enough--and between 'a sentence for life' (what can't be changed in the self) and that which can be wrestled with and, at least, understood. "San Francisco Chronicle""

"Beautifully precise prose . . . It leaves the reader with the unforgettable experience of having met a ferociously honest woman on her own uncompromising terms." --The New York Times

"Brilliant . . . Lucy confirms Ms. Kincaid as a both a daughter of Bronte and Woolf and her own inimitable self." --Wall Street Journal

"A furious, broken-hearted gem of a novel . . . Part of the richness of this book is the way we come to see, as Lucy struggles to do, the connections between those of us who have too much and those who will never have enough--and between 'a sentence for life' (what can't be changed in the self) and that which can be wrestled with and, at least, understood." --San Francisco Chronicle

About the Author:

Jamaica Kincaid was born in St John's, Antigua, in the West Indies. She is the author of two highly-praised works of fiction, At the Bottom of the River and Annie John, as well as a non-fiction portrait of Antigua, A Small Place. She now lives in New York and is a a staff writer for The New Yorker.

About this edition

• Publisher: G K Hall & Co
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0816152012
• ISBN 13: 9780816152018
• Binding: Hardcover