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Transcript: New Jamaica Kincaid Novel Powerful, Not Flawless
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- January 19, 1996
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Book Reviewer Alan Cheuse finds "The Autobiography of My Mother" by
Jamaica Kincaid flawed in places, but generally powerful. He notes
the beauty of the language and images was enough to stop and savor.
NOAH ADAMS, Host: The setting for novelist Jamaica Kincaid's fourth
work of fiction is once again her native Caribbean. The book is called
The Autobiography of My Mother. Our reviewer, Alan Cheuse, finds
it flawed, but nonetheless powerful.
ALLEN CHEUSE, Book Reviewer: The narrator of Jamaica Kincaid's new
novel is a married woman looking back on her life. From the moment
that her mother died while giving birth to her, on through her ...