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Mr Potter

by Jamaica Kincaid
RM21.96 MYR RM14.52 MYR 34% off
RM13.07 MYR Thryft Club Member Price
Mr Potter - Thryft
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Luminous portrayal of Antiguan life.

Recommended for those seeking a rich cultural experience through vivid, descriptive storytelling. The book immerses readers in the sights, smells, and emotions of life in Antigua through the eyes of an ordinary man.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Mr Potter

by Jamaica Kincaid
RM21.96 MYR RM14.52 MYR 34% off
RM13.07 MYR Thryft Club Member Price
ISBN: 9780099445135
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: RM46.06 MYR
Authors: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2003-08-07
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Race, Literature, Asian Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.27
(rated by 673 readers)

Description

In this luminous, bewitching new novel Jamaica Kincaid tells the story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home. The island of Antigua comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffer who makes his living driving a navy blue Hillman along the wide-open roads that pass the only towns he has ever seen and the graveyard where he will be buried. The sun shines squarely overhead, the ocean lies on every side and suppressed passion fills the air. Kincaid conjures up a moving picture of Mr Potter's youth - beginning with memories of his father, a poor fisherman, and his mother, who committed suicide - and the outside world, that presses in on his life. Within these confines, Mr Potter struggles to live at ease: to buy his own car, to have girlfriends, to shake off the encumbrance of his many daughters, one of whom will return to Antigua after he dies, to tell his story with equal measures of distance and sympathy. In Mr Potter Jamaica Kincaid brings alive a figure unlike any in contemporary fiction, an individual consciousness emerging gloriously out of an unexamined life to cast a long shadow.
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Luminous portrayal of Antiguan life.

Recommended for those seeking a rich cultural experience through vivid, descriptive storytelling. The book immerses readers in the sights, smells, and emotions of life in Antigua through the eyes of an ordinary man.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.