{"product_id":"putting-myself-together-jamaica-kincaid-9780374613235","title":"Putting Myself Together: Writing 1973-","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of the inimitable writer's essays, from her early days at \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e through her time at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis collection of Jamaica Kincaid's nonfiction writings, from her early days at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e until now, amounts to a brilliant, hilarious, trenchant self-portrait of one of the most surprising and original writers we have. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the classic \"Autobiography of a Dress\" to her original thinking about the meaning of the garden, Kincaid writes about the world as she finds it, with her own quizzical, rapier-sharp response to reality that always takes the reader in new, life-enhancing directions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson in Antigua in 1949. She has always been herself. \u003ci\u003ePutting Myself Together \u003c\/i\u003eshows how this inimitable self-created mind and spirit, endowed with inimitable wit, humor, and fearlessness, has become one of our essential writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jamaica Kincaid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374613230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374613235\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/05\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Jamaica Kincaid","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46545892835583,"sku":"9780374613235","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_40d8a78d-9cfa-4bd6-8a0e-8e97c8e4cf87.jpg?v=1738183629","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/putting-myself-together-jamaica-kincaid-9780374613235","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}