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Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid (1991, Paperback) 
Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid (1991, Paperback)

 
Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid (1991, Paperback)

Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Publication Date: 1991-10-01
Series: Plume Contemporary Fiction
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0452266777
ISBN-13: 9780452266773
Product ID: EPID130816
Description: Lucy, a 19-year-old au pair from the West Indies, is pleased with her employers, who seem to be urbane and perfect, and their four daughters. Yet as she grows closer to the family and perceives the cracks in the facade of their lives, Lu...
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Synopsis
Lucy, a 19-year-old au pair from the West Indies, is pleased with her employers, who seem to be urbane and perfect, and their four daughters. Yet as she grows closer to the family and perceives the cracks in the facade of their lives, Lucy must come to terms with her own sexuality, her feelings towards her mother, and the memories of her past.

Details
Publication Date:1991-10-01
Series:Plume Contemporary Fiction

Size
Height:8.0 in
Width:3.3 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:5.6 oz

Publisher's Note
Jamaica Kincaid's most beguiling and powerful work to date. Nineteen-year-old Lucy comes to America from the West Indies to work for a couple and their four children. Almost at once, Lucy begins to see cracks in the fascade of this handsome, rich, and seemingly happy family.

Industry Reviews
"The toughness and elegance of Kincaid's writing is all that one could want. It is both poetic and matter-of-fact in its precision and spareness."
Washington Post Book World - Susanna Moore

"Lucy's self-assertion is reckless, regretful, but irresistible, and it is Kincaid's representation of it as inevitable that accounts for the psychological richness of the novel....Lucy has an experimental indifference, a sane ingratitude, toward the people who offer her friendship, sex, or opportunities....She wins, because new people are merely specimens to her...."
New York Review of Books - Darryl Pinckney (03/21/1996)

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