JAMAICA
KINCAID at Seattle Public Central Library
Wednesday, 04/03/2013 7:00 pm
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| Jamaica Kincaid |
Co-presented
with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
One
of the most accomplished prose writers in the English language at work today,
the author of numerous works of fiction and essay, Jamaica Kincaid makes this
welcome Seattle return for her first novel in ten years, See Now Then (Farrar,
Straus & Giroux).
"Writers make uncomfortable kin ...
There's a reflex in every writer that trumps even the maternal instinct, a part
of her that, even while her newborn suckles at her breast, is cold-eyed,
choosing words to describe the pit-bull clamp of its gums, the crusted globe of
its skull, with the same dispassion which she might describe fellow passengers
on a bus ... The intimate treachery, the permanent duality that this entails
... are lucidly examined in Jamaica Kincaid's latest novel ... Kincaid has the
gift of endowing common experience with a mythic ferocity ... [She] is one of
our most scouringly vivid writers." – Fernanda Eberstadt, New York Times
Book Review.
Free
admission is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The Seattle Public Library is
at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison & Spring).
For
more information, please see www.spl.org or call (206) 386-4636.
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