Girl | Literary Precedents
"Girl" and several other Kincaid stories had already been published in the influential magazine the New Yorker, when Kincaid's collection At the Bottom of the River came out in 1983. Like "Girl," many of the ten stories about growing up in the Caribbean are told in dreamy, stream-of-consciousness prose. The volume attracted more critical attention than volumes of short stories usually do, particularly for a writer's first book. Early reviewers were drawn to the language of the stories, though some were put off by the overall obscurity.
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