Fresh, risky, improvisational and hard-to-categorize writing - Chicago Tribune

Talk Stories is a collection of Jamaica Kincaids original writing for the New Yorkers Talk of the Town column from 1974 to 1983. In these early pieces Kincaid discovers New Yorks many hidden secrets as she learns the worlds of publishing and partying, of fashion and popular music, and how to call a cauliflower a crudite.

Talk Stories Reviews

What a writer elegant, uncompromising, simultaneously direct and layered and complex. -- Ali Smith
Ive read everything by Jamaica Kincaid, and Ive still never read anyone like her. If you are new to Kincaid, I envy you. -- Jackie Kay

About Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John's, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, and My Brother. She lives with her family in Vermont.

Additional information

Sku

NGR9781529077049

ISBN 13

9781529077049

ISBN 10

1529077044

Title

Talk Stories by Jamaica Kincaid

Author

Jamaica Kincaid

Series

Picador Collection

Condition

New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

Year published

2024-08-08

Number of pages

272

Prizes

N/A

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