| A Small Place Contributor(s): Kincaid, Jamaica (Author), Miles, Robin (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1504743342 ISBN-13: 9781504743341 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 7.5" (0.20 lbs) |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the award-winning author of Annie John comes a brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua."If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the prime minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a prime minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen ..."So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up.Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kincaid, Jamaica: - Jamaica Kincaid, born in St. John's, Antigua, is the author of short stories, novels, and nonfiction. Her 2013 novel See Now Then was a New York Times bestseller. A former reporter for the New Yorker magazine, she is a professor of literature at Claremont-McKenna College in California. Miles, Robin: -Robin Miles, also known as Violet Grey, is an accent specialist and award-winning narrator of over two hundred audiobooks. She was named the 2008 Best Voice in Fiction & Classics for The Pirate's Daughter and 2008 Best Voice in Biography & History for Brother, I'm Dying. |