Name: Lucy (in Spanish)
Price: 26.46 CAD
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Author: Jamaica Kincaid
ISBN: 9789560002235

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Physical Book

Author

Jamaica Kincaid

Publisher

Lom

Synopsis "Lucy (in Spanish)"

la llegada de la joven lucy a los estados unidos para trabajar como au pair de una familia acomodada supone para ella alcanzar un sueño largamente acariciado: materializar la clausura de un mundo -el familiar- para acceder a un lugar en el cual construir un futuro sin nostalgias por aquello que se dejó atrás, representado en la figura odiosa de su propia madre. con un lenguaje descarnado que confunde autobiografía y ficción, jamaica kincaid nos habla de la inevitabilidad del desarraigo. es un relato que da cuenta del modo en que la protagonista intenta desprenderse de la carga de una historia previa, cuyas figuras se han vuelto una galería de seres fantasmales que acuden a su mente una y otra vez y que, como en el caso de su madre, solo pueden ser evocadas con rabia y resentimiento. comprender la soledad y un cierto tinte gris de la existencia será en lucy una forma de vivir una primera adultez que se extiende como un hermoso cuaderno de páginas en blanco.

Jamaica Kincaid

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Jamaica Kincaid (born Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson in 1949, Saint John's, Antigua and Barbuda) is a Caribbean-American writer and essayist known for her lyrical style and focus on themes such as identity, colonialism, and family relationships. At 17, she moved to New York, where she worked as an au pair and later adopted the pseudonym Jamaica Kincaid. She collaborated with The New Yorker magazine from 1976 to 1995. Currently, she resides in Vermont and has been a professor at Harvard University

Among her most notable works are Annie John (1985), A Small Place (1988), Lucy (1990), The Autobiography of My Mother (1995), My Brother (1997), and Mr. Potter (2002). Her work has been translated into multiple languages and has received awards such as the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the Prix Femina Étranger. Kincaid is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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