{"product_id":"putting-myself-together-writing-1974","title":"Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974-","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003ePutting Myself Together: Writing 1974-\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJamaica Kincaid\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780374613235\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2025\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e336\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy 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.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis collection of Jamaica Kincaid's nonfiction writing, including early pieces from publications such as\u003ci\u003e The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMs\u003c\/i\u003e., proves what her admirers have always known: from the start, she has been a consummate stylist, and she has always been herself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom \"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003ePutting Myself Together \u003c\/i\u003eis a brilliant, trenchant, hilarious self-portrait of the artist and a testament to how this inimitable, self-created mind and spirit, endowed with wit, humor, and fearlessness, has become one of our greatest, most original writers.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974- | Jamaica Kincaid | Hardcover | 9780374613235 | New | Essays 1700484","offer_id":50828302156034,"sku":"1700484","price":46.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/817-RdSpT2L.jpg?v=1792581430","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/putting-myself-together-writing-1974","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}