{"product_id":"9780374527075","title":"A Small Place","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA Small Place\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Jamaica Kincaid\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of \u003ci\u003eAnnie John\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . .\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, \u003ci\u003eA Small Place\u003c\/i\u003e cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ms. Kincaid writes with passion and conviction . . . [with] a poet's understanding of how politics and history, private and public events, overlap and blur.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A jeremiad of great clarity and force that one might have called torrential were the language not so finely controlled.” —\u003ci\u003eSalman Rushdie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A rich and evocative prose that is also both urgent and poetic . . . Kincaid is a witness to what is happening in our West Indian back yards. And I trust her.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kincaid continues to write with a unique, compelling voice that cannot be found anywhere else. Her small books are worth a pile of thicker--and hollower--ones.” —\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is truth, beautifully and powerfully stated . . . In truly lyrical language that makes you read aloud, [Kincaid] takes you from the dizzying blue of the Caribbean to the sewage of hotels and clubs where black Antiguans are only allowed to work . . . Truth, wisdom, insight, outrage, and cutting wit.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Wonderful reading . . . Tells more about the Caribbean in 80 pages than all the guidebooks.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780374527075\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40652256411854,"sku":"9780374527075","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_d3c7bfd1-bba1-444e-af5c-07efa4c45567.jpg?v=1639275043","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780374527075","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}