{"product_id":"putting-myself-together-writing-1974-by-jamaica-kincaid","title":"Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974– by Jamaica Kincaid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis collection of Jamaica Kincaid’s nonfiction writing, including early pieces from publications such as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, proves what her admirers have always known: from the start, she has been a consummate stylist, and she has always been herself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom “Jamaica Kincaid’s New York,” which narrates her move to the city from Antigua at the age of sixteen and a half, to the classic “Biography of a Dress,” her cultural criticism, and her original thinking about the meaning of the garden, Kincaid writes about the world as she finds it, imparting her own quizzical, rapier-sharp response to whatever crosses her path.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePutting Myself Together\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a brilliant, trenchant, hilarious self-portrait of the artist and a testament to how this inimitable, self-created mind and spirit, endowed with wit, humor, and fearlessness, has become one of our greatest, most original writers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53083685355829,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/PuttingMyselfTogether.jpg?v=1783040796","url":"https:\/\/wombhousebooks.com\/products\/putting-myself-together-writing-1974-by-jamaica-kincaid","provider":"Womb House Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}