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by Jamaica Kincaid

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  • ISBN: 0224030558
  • Category: Fiction
  • Author: Jamaica Kincaid
  • Subcategory: Contemporary
  • Other formats: lrf lrf docx lit
  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Farrar, 1990; First Edition edition (1990)
  • Pages: 176 pages
  • FB2 size: 1361 kb
  • EPUB size: 1853 kb
  • Rating: 4.6
  • Votes: 661
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Lucy (1990) is a short novel or novella by Jamaica Kincaid. The story begins in medias res: the eponymous Lucy has come from the West Indies to the United States to be an au pair for a wealthy white family.

Lucy (1990) is a short novel or novella by Jamaica Kincaid. The plot of the novel closely mirrors Kincaid's own experiences. Lucy retains the critical tone of A Small Place but simplifies the style of Kincaid's earlier work by using less repetition and surrealism.

In Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new character possessed with adamantine clearsightedness and . I really enjoy Jamaica Kincaid's writing and I thoroughly enjoyed Lucy. A small book but the prose packs a huge punch

In Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new character possessed with adamantine clearsightedness and ferocious integrity-a captivating heroine for our time. A small book but the prose packs a huge punch. In Lucy we meet a nineteen year old girl who is from the Caribbean, moves to the US to be an au pair for a family who seems to have it all together.

Jamaica Kincaid, born in St. John's, Antigua, is the author of short stories, novels, and nonfiction. Her 2013 novel See Now Then was a New York Times bestseller. A former reporter for the New Yorker magazine, she is a professor of literature at Claremont-McKenna College in California. Lucy is remarkable and fearless in her self-honesty, a perpetually redeeming quality in the eyes of this reader. This is a powerful work about a powerful female protagonist. KIncaid's writing focuses on Lucy's consciousness and insight rather than embroidered description of material details, another feature of her writing I strongly prefer.

Lucy - Jamaica Kincaid.

he novel Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid fo-cuses on the eponymous protagonist and how she is a product of double identity. Lucy is analyzed as a foreigner/immigrant from the Caribbean as well as a woman of color within the United States. Although migrants and immigrants are generally understood to be those who settle in another country, im-migrants are distinct from migrants because they undergo more than just physical dis-placement; their identities change as well.

Электронная книга "Lucy: A Novel", Jamaica Kincaid. Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to America to work as an au pair for a wealthy couple

Электронная книга "Lucy: A Novel", Jamaica Kincaid. Эту книгу можно прочитать в Google Play Книгах на компьютере, а также на устройствах Android и iOS. Выделяйте текст, добавляйте закладки и делайте заметки, скачав книгу "Lucy: A Novel" для чтения в офлайн-режиме. Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to America to work as an au pair for a wealthy couple. She begins to notice cracks in their beautiful façade at the same time that the mysteries of own sexuality begin to unravel. Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new heroine who is destined to win a place of honor in contemporary fiction.

In Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid has created a captivating heroine possessed with adamantine clearsightedness and ferocious integrity. Lucy" is Kincaid's most beguiling and powerful work to date, a fitting successor to her highly acclaimed first novel, "Annie John. Lucy is nineteen, a vinegary, quick-tongued au pair from the West Indies who has left behind her island girlhood for a fierce awakening in urban North America. At first she is dazzled by her employers, Lewis and Mariah, their four storybook daughters, and thier perfect marriage. Yet almost at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in this beautiful facade. Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John's, Antigua

In Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new character possessed with adamantine clearsightedness and ferocious integrity-a captivating heroine for our time. Connect with the author. John's, Antigua. In 2000 she was awarded the Prix Fémina Étranger for My Brother. She lives with her family in Vermont.

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Reviews about Lucy (7):
funike
I had previously read Annie John for a course in college and loved it. There are common themes in these two novels which layer Kincaid's exploration of identity, racism, post-colonial legacy, attachment (mother-daughter relationship especially), freedom, courage, and agency... Lucy as a female protagonist may be difficult for some readers to relate to but that would be most true of readers with limited scope, who do not have the ability to embrace human complexity, especially its inherent contradictions. Lucy is remarkable and fearless in her self-honesty, a perpetually redeeming quality in the eyes of this reader. This is a powerful work about a powerful female protagonist. KIncaid's writing focuses on Lucy's consciousness and insight rather than embroidered description of material details, another feature of her writing I strongly prefer. This could be a great book for a high level high school English course (as a coming of age story), but it's also a great read for the adult reader. I imagine a reader's perspective could change with years spanning a read and reread which indicates the quality and depth of Kincaid's writing.
Arashigore
I had not expected to find Jamaica Kincaid's fiction to so resemble the (men's) existentialist fictions of another century. But there is a proto-feminist--or at least socially grounded twist to the alienated protagonist as she, Lucy, a West Indian Black is thrown into a white world--the au pair for an upper class white family in New england or some North East region of the states-- fleeing her island and mother. Her complicated love/hate feelings for her mother (shadowed by love hate feelings for the white woman she works for) twist the usual existentialist turn on identity, even race, from the usual tale of solitary ego to a troubled meditation on a daughter/mother dyad also complicated by race and cultural alienation. she experiences the burgeoning sexuality of her 19 year old self --sex with men mostly--as something outside of herself while describing it also as fun and adventurous. Actually I see how this review is obscure because i really have to go back to re-read to get more fully the different layers of what Kincaid is doing, but it's a very compelling and nuanced read.
Malara
The complex and seemingly sinister disposition of "Lucy", appropriately named as the feminine version of Lucifer, is told in a simplistically subtle beauty that was either appreciated or lost on the members of the Uptown Girls Harlem Book Club. The story is of a young Caribbean au pair who recounts her experiences of her native land as she makes a home for herself in a cold New York-like city. Through her eyes the reader watches the dissolution of a flimsy marriage whose end is solidified when the handsome cultivated husband licks the neck of his wife's best friend.

Lucy has a sour personality that is surpirsingly delicate. The issues of finding oneself, the relationships between mother and daughter, and the liberation, or lack thereof, of a young woman in the late 1960s is explored in a an unassuming wisdom that is quiet yet poignant. The book is short and makes for a quick read but the topics discussed are timely and easily filled, at least, an hour of our meeting.

The book is sexy. Despite the sexual exploits of Lucy with males and a female, the book lacks the vulgarity prevalent in popular fiction today. The author is almost surgical with vocabulary and punctuation usage which makes for a delightful read whose beauty is either noticed instantly or comes to fruition like a sunrise when the words are fully reflected upon.
BOND
My daughter liked this as an audiobook, so I ordered the book. I've picked it up numerous times, but haven't made it to the end yet. I have found it difficult to get involved with the main character, Lucy. The writing hasn't drawn me in, and it has been difficult to continue. I plan to try again.
Briciraz
Short book, somewhat interesting coming of age story. I was torn between feeling sorry for Lucy, feeling happy for her, or just examining her as if she was an empty shell. I wanted her to feel things. I was rooting for her to feel things. But maybe that's the point of the story... That when you are that full of anger, numbness is all you have. I still enjoyed the book, even though it left me feeling unsure of Lucy.
Majin
This is one of the best character driven novels ever written. It's studied in colleges and advance fiction writing workshops across the country.
Golkis
I had heard so much of her. This is the first work of her's that I've read and I love it. I read some comments that its written on an elementary level. It's not that Kincaid has an elementary level of writing. That was Lucy's voice. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Great plot. As pessimistic as Lucy is...that's how some people actually are. And isnt that the point of reading? To gain insight to what we dont know or understand. Lucy stuck with me and to me, that defines a great book.
This is a gripping short novel that gives readers a vivid window into the psychology of an adolescent set adrift in a new world and grappling issues of race, sex, gender, and identity writ large. It's not the happiest book, and it doesn't have the happiest ending, but that's a large part of what makes it compelling and real.

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