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A Small Place
A Small Place
Author: Jamaica Kincaid
A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John — "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 wo...  more »

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.
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ISBN-13: 9780374527075
ISBN-10: 0374527075
Publication Date: 4/28/2000
Pages: 96
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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The writing is excellently done, 2nd person point of view was awesome to read for the first time.


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