We were sure that the much-talked-about future that everybody was preparing us for would never come, for we had such a powerful feeling against it, and why shouldn't our will prevail this time? Sometimes when we looked at each other, it was all we could do not to cry out with happiness.
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Annie John
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Episodes from the young life of Annie John, aged 10 to 17, as she grows up on the Caribbean Island of Antigua. This is a magical coming-of-age tale, ripe with the special ambience of its tropical setting and sustained by Annie's far from naive awareness of the world around her. Death, illness, and poverty intrude on the narrator's perceptive sensibility from time to time, but even these experiences instruct her and expand her understanding of life and its shifting reality. Although Annie leaves Antigua at the end of the novel for a new role as a student in England, the hollowness she feels at her departure is balanced by the new self that awaits her as she begins the search for her own identity. A poetic and intensely moving work from the author of At the Bottom of the River.
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domestic fiction, mothers and daughters, teenage girls, Fiction, Coming of age, Fiction, general, Mothers and daughters--antigua--fiction, Teenage girls--antigua--fiction, Antigua, Antigua--fiction, Mothers and daughters--antigua and barbuda--antigua--fiction, Teenage girls--antigua and barbuda--antigua--fiction, Pr9275.a583 k5634 1997, Literature, study and teaching, Literature, modern, history and criticismPlaces
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Since her first, prize-winning collection of stories, At the Bottom of the River, Jamaica Kincaid's work has been met with nothing short of amazement. The New York Times hailed her "prophetic power" and the Los Angeles Times Book Review said: "No one else seems to be writing quite this way right now." With Annie John, the story of a young girl coming of age in Antigua, Kincaid tore open the theme that lies at the heart of all her fierce, incantatory novels: the ambivalent and essential bonds created by a mother's love. In this novel, written in Kincaid's lucid, elemental style, Annie John's ambivalence is universally familiar and wrenchingly real.
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"It encapsulates pre-pubescence, one of the main subjects of the story."
For a short while during the year I was ten, I thought only people I did not know died.
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For a short while during the year I was ten, I thought only people I did not know died.
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