Annie John
About this book
Since her first, prize-winning collection of stories, At the Bottom of the River, Jamaica Kincaid's work has been met with nothing short of amazement. The New York Times hailed her "prophetic power" and the Los Angeles Times Book Review said: "No one else seems to be writing quite this way right now." With Annie John, the story of a young girl coming of age in Antigua, Kincaid tore open the theme that lies at the heart of all her fierce, incantatory novels: the ambivalent and essential bonds created by a mother's love. In this novel, written in Kincaid's lucid, elemental style, Annie John's ambivalence is universally familiar and wrenchingly real.
Reader Profile
3.7/5 · 14616 readers · 148 pages · ≈ 2 h 44 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read Annie John?
About ≈ 2 h 44 m — 148 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Annie John?
148 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Annie John?
It sits on the Fiction shelves.
Is Annie John in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote Annie John?
Jamaica Kincaid.
“For a short while during the year I was ten, I thought only people I did not know died.”