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Putting Myself Together by Jamaica Kincaid is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Putting Myself Together about?

My ignorance was on my side. I wasn't afraid. I didn't know what to be afraid of. I did one thing, I did another. I did what I now call crashing about. One day I started to write.This collection of Jamaica Kincaid's nonfiction writing, including early pieces from publications such as The New Yorker, The Village Voice, and Ms., proves what her admirers have always known: from the start, she has been a consummate stylist, and she has always been herself.From "Jamaica Kincaid's New York," which narrates her move to the city from Antigua at the age of sixteen and a half, to the classic "Biography of a Dress," her cultural criticism, and her original thinking about the meaning of the garden, Kincaid writes about the world as she finds it, imparting her own quizzical, rapier-sharp response to whatever crosses her path.Putting Myself Together is a brilliant, trenchant, hilarious self-portrait of the artist and a testament to how this...

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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
EN
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Memoir, Biography, Novelists, Poets & Playwrights

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