Mr. Potter
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9780374528744
9780374214944
9780374214944
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| Grouped Work ID | 2b3d7025-561d-3997-1802-1c66cdc6bcf8 |
|---|---|
| Grouping Title | mr potter |
| Grouping Author | jamaica kincaid |
| Grouping Category | book |
| Grouping Language | English (eng) |
| Last Grouping Update | 2024-03-10 04:13:46AM |
| Last Indexed | 2024-04-30 03:15:11AM |
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Kincaid, Jamaica
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Jamaica Kincaid's first obsession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffeur who makes his living along the wide, open roads that pass the only towns he has ever seen and the graveyard where he will be buried. The sun shines squarely overhead, the ocean lies on every side, and suppressed passion fills the air. Misery infects the unstudied, slow pace of this island and of Mr. Potter's days. As Kincaid's narrative unfolds in linked vignettes, his story becomes the story of a vital, crippled community. Kincaid strings together a moving picture of Mr. Potter's ancestors -- beginning with memories of his father, a poor fisherman, and his mother, who committed suicide -- and the outside world that presses in on his life, in the form of his Lebanese employer and, later, a couple fleeing World War II. Within these surroundings, Mr. Potter struggles to live at ease: to purchase a car, to have girlfriends, to shake off the encumbrance of his daughters -- one of whom will return to Antigua after he dies, and will tell his story with equal measures of distance and sympathy. In Mr. Potter, her most luminous, ambitious work to date, Kincaid breathes life into a figure unlike any in contemporary fiction, an individual consciousness emerging gloriously out of an unexamined life.
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KINCAID
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Wake County Public Libraries
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9780374528744
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2002
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Antigua -- Fiction
Chauffeurs -- Fiction
Domestic fiction
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
Chauffeurs -- Fiction
Domestic fiction
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
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Mr. Potter
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Mr. Potter / Jamaica Kincaid
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Mr. Potter
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Chauffeurs
Fathers and daughters
Fathers and daughters
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| ils:366286 | Book | Books | First edition | English | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2002 | 195 pages ; 21 cm |
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