PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book (nominee)
Jamaica Kincaid's inspired, lyrical short stories
Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naively whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is partially remembered partly divined. The memories often concern a childhood in the Caribbean--family, manners, and landscape--as distilled and transformed by Kincaid's special style and vision.
Kincaid leads her readers to consider, as if for the first time, the powerful ties between mother and child; the beauty and destructiveness of nature; the gulf between the masculine and the feminine; the significance of familiar things--a house, a cup, a pen. Transfiguring our human form and our surroundings--shedding skin, darkening an afternoon, painting a perfect place--these stories tell us something we didn't know, in a way we hadn't expected.
Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naively whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is partially remembered partly divined. The memories often concern a childhood in the Caribbean--family, manners, and landscape--as distilled and transformed by Kincaid's special style and vision.
Kincaid leads her readers to consider, as if for the first time, the powerful ties between mother and child; the beauty and destructiveness of nature; the gulf between the masculine and the feminine; the significance of familiar things--a house, a cup, a pen. Transfiguring our human form and our surroundings--shedding skin, darkening an afternoon, painting a perfect place--these stories tell us something we didn't know, in a way we hadn't expected.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Used availability for Jamaica Kincaid's At the Bottom of the River
Hardback Editions
December 1983 : USA Hardback
Paperback Editions
November 2020 : USA Paperback
October 2000 : USA Paperback
November 1997 : UK Paperback
November 1991 : USA Mass Market Paperback
April 1979 : USA Paperback
September 1984 : UK Paperback
September 1984 : UK Paperback
Audio Editions
March 2017 : USA Audio CD
March 2017 : USA MP3 CD
March 2017 : USA Audio edition

Title: At the Bottom of the River
Author(s): Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Availability: Amazon
March 2017 : Australia Audio edition

Title: At the Bottom of the River
Author(s): Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Availability: Amazon AU
March 2017 : Canada Audio edition

Title: At the Bottom of the River
Author(s): Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Availability: Amazon CA
March 2017 : UK Audio edition

Title: At the Bottom of the River
Author(s): Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Availability: Amazon UK
Kindle Editions
October 2000 : USA, Canada Kindle edition