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Overview'Controlled and fearless perfection' - The Washington Post Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon died of Aids on 19 January 1996 at the age of 33. This poetic and shockingly candid recounting of her brother's life and death is also the story of her family in Antigua - centred round her destructive mother - and a portrait of an illness misunderstood. From one of today's most iconic writers, My Brother is a remarkable record of a life that ended too early. It speaks to the difficult truths at the heart of all families. Now part of the Picador Collection Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jamaica KincaidPublisher: Pan Macmillan Imprint: Picador Dimensions: Width: 13.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 19.70cm Weight: 0.118kg ISBN: 9781529077087ISBN 10: 1529077087 Pages: 160 Publication Date: 08 August 2024 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsControlled and fearless perfection -- Carolyn See * Washington Post * A sustained meditation on the grinding wheel of family, with mother always at the hub; on the countries of our past, both real and emotional, which we have fled and in which we have felt like strangers; on death as a devastating injury and dying as an irritating inconvenience . . . a memoir about death that portrays it as it is, not as we would have it be, as we so often tailor it both in memoir and fiction -- Anna Quindlen * New York Times Book Review * Visceral and wrenching, this is a memoir of mourning . . . Kincaid's revelations are both intoxicating and redeeming -- René Graham * Boston Sunday Globe * What a writer – elegant, uncompromising, simultaneously direct and layered and complex. * Ali Smith * Controlled and fearless perfection -- Carolyn See * Washington Post * A sustained meditation on the grinding wheel of family, with mother always at the hub; on the countries of our past, both real and emotional, which we have fled and in which we have felt like strangers; on death as a devastating injury and dying as an irritating inconvenience . . . a memoir about death that portrays it as it is, not as we would have it be, as we so often tailor it both in memoir and fiction -- Anna Quindlen * New York Times Book Review * Visceral and wrenching, this is a memoir of mourning . . . Kincaid's revelations are both intoxicating and redeeming -- Rene Graham * Boston Sunday Globe * What a writer - elegant, uncompromising, simultaneously direct and layered and complex. * Ali Smith * Author InformationJamaica Kincaid was born in St. John's, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, and My Brother. She lives with her family in Vermont. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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