by JamaicaKincaid (Author)
Kincaid found a unique voice, at once in sync with the quintessential elite insider's magazine, and (though unsigned) all her own - wonderingly alive to the ironies and screwball details that characterized her adopted city. She meets Miss Jamaica, visiting from Kingston, and watches Tammy Wynette autograph a copy of Lattimore's Odyssey; she learns about the worlds of publishing and partying, of fashion and popular music. Talk Stories also records Kincaid's development as a young writer - the newcomer who sensitively records her impressions here takes root to become one of our most respected authors.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01 Nov 2001
ISBN 10: 009942682X
ISBN 13: 9780099426820
Book Overview: A collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original writing for The New Yorker's Talk of the Town , composed during the time when she arrived in the United States from Antigua, form 1978 to 1983. 20010730