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My Brother
by Jamaica Kincaid
ISBN: 0374216819
ISBN-13: 9780374216818
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
Jamaica Kincaid writes candidly and with affection about her gifted brother, who died of AIDS at 33 after a troubled life. In the process, she evokes her growing up on the island of Antigua, and the terrifying woman who is her mother.
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"The death of Kincaid's brother from AIDS results in a book that is lyrically beautiful and emotionally forceful, but lacking a deep examination of its many themes. Writing only a year after the death of her brother, Kincaid uses the event to reexplore issues that permeate her novels and other writings: family, race, and migration."
-- Kirkus
"Jamaica Kincaid has some problems with her mother. This won't be a surprise to anyone who's read her books....So bitter is Kincaid, and so sure that she's been wronged, that she only allots a certain amount of time and reflection in "My Brother" to the ostensible subject of her book. This is not an 'AIDS' book any more than it's a standard or straightforward attempt on Kincaid's part to render her brother's life and death." -- Peter Kurth
-- Salon
"[A] lesson in constructing a memoir that resembles not a neat narrative but the meandering river of human memory....But memory alone would not elevate this book, make it rise as high as it sometimes does. That work is done by the mind's eye of the writer, and her refusal to oversimplify, overanalyze or sentimentalize." -- Anna Quindlen
-- New York Times Book Review
"I have never been able to withstand the relentless analytical clarity of Kincaid's narrative voice. Whatever her narrators tell me about their feelings, however unpleasant of extreme they may be, I accept..." -- Gay Wachman
-- Nation
"Most of all, 'My Brother' is about Jamaica Kincaid. Unshrouded, here, by the thin veil of fiction she's draped around her disclosures in the past, Kincaid emerges naked-with her bold perceptions and unappealing self-righteousness in evidence." -- Meredith Maran
-- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published date: 1997
Size: 5.25 x 8.75 inches
Weight: 0.75 pounds
Pages: 197
Publisher's Notes
Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. The youngest of four children, highly intelligent, well read, and a charming, handsome, and seductive personality, he had also been involved in a murder at the age of fourteen, adopted the manner of a Rastafarian, and been a heavy user of drugs. A dreamer who aroused both love and anger, he died painfully and alone in his mother's house. Jamaica Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and shockingly frank recounting of her brother's story is also the story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation revolving around the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. The unblinking investigation of a life that ended too early speaks volumes about the difficult truths at the heart of all families.
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Hardcover. 1st Edition. October 30, 199. Very Good. 1st edition. Very good condition. Jacket in very good condition. Clean and tight. Practically unread condition. Compassion only occasionally lightens the grim tone of Jamaica Kincaid's se aring account of her younger brother Devon's 1996 death from AIDS. As in no vels such as Annie John, Kincaid is ruthlessly honest about her ambivalence toward the impoverished Caribbean nation from which she fled, her restrict ive family, and the culture that imprisoned Devon. That honesty, which incl udes chilling detachment from her brother's suffering, is sometimes alienat ing. But art has its own justifications. The bitter clarity of Kincaid's pr ose and the tangled, undeniably human feelings it lucidly dissects are just ification enough. From Library Journal Reading novelist Kincaid's prose is like learning all over again why one writes: to sift endlessly, reorder, and distill one's raw, cluttered experience so that what emerges is, quite simply, perfect. Kincaid has written most recently about her mother (The Autobiography of My Mother, LJ 1/96), and indeed is still writing about her mother, though obliquely, in this memoir of her youngest brother, who died at age 33 from AIDS. Kincaid did not know until after his death that he was homosexual; she had not seen him for 20 years before his illness. In gently insistent, incantatory prose, she recounts their forced reunion, the complicated feelings his illness evokes, the pity and anger she feels for a life senselessly squandered, and her coming to love him as he lay dying. Being back in her native Antigua, and especially near her mother, stirs powerful and painful memories, an . ( more information)
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New York: Farrar Straus Giroux., 1997. SIGNED BY JAMAICA KINCAID. The fine writer's moving memoir of her brother and his death from AIDS at the age of 33. Fine/fine. ISBN: 0374216819. First Edition. Boards with Dustjacket. People of Color, Signed Books, Women Authors, Women Writers, AIDS Memoirs, Drugs, Homosexuals, Gay Men, family Relationships, Brothers. ( more information)
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