At the Bottom of the River
07 July 2022Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
At the Bottom of the River is Jamaica Kincaid’s first published work, a selection of inter-connected prose poems told from the perspective of a young Afro-Caribbean girl.
Collecting pieces written for the New Yorker and the Paris Review between 1978 and 1982, including the seminal ‘Girl’, these stunning works announced a fully-formed, generational talent and firmly established the themes that Kincaid...
Details
07 July 202280 pages
9781529076783Imprint: Picador
Reviews
This book will burn on your shelf. It is too choked with love to incite envy, too humble for admiration, and still too startling to escape astonishmentDerek Walcott
What a writer – elegant, uncompromising, simultaneously direct and layered and complex.Ali Smith
I’ve read everything by Jamaica Kincaid, and I’ve still never read anyone like her. If you are new to Kincaid, I envy youJackie Kay
