A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE NEW STATESMAN AND THE TLSA landmark collection of essays by the iconic writer Jamaica Kincaid.&#39Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable&#39 Zadie Smith&lsquoAn unaffectedly sumptuous, irresistible writer&rsquo Susan Sontag&lsquoWhat a writer&#39 Ali Smith&lsquoBoth a daughter of Bront&euml and Woolf and her own inimitable self&rsquo The Wall Street Journal&#39If you are new to Kincaid, I envy you&rsquo Jackie KayThat&rsquos the way I write. It&rsquos never going to stop. And the more it makes people annoyed the more I will do it. Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson in Antigua in 1949. She has always been herself. Her work began to be published after she moved to New York at the age of nineteen, and by 1974 she was contributing to The New Yorker&rsquos &lsquoTalk of the Town&rsquo column, where she later became a staff writer.This is a blazing collection that spans more than five decades of Jamaica Kincaid&rsquos writing. From Muhammad Ali, Diana Ross, gardening and motherhood, to colonialism and the act of writing, Putting Myself Together shows how this witty and fearless writer became one of the most remarkable and influential voices of a generation.

Binding: Hardback;224 pages; Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Int Ltd - MDL; Classification: DN; Weight: 560 g; Dimensions: 145 x 224 x 32

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