Lucy (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jamaica Kincaid
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The late 1960’s
- Setting: A large city (probably New York) and a summer house on the shore of one of the Great Lakes
- Principal Characters: Lucy Josepfiine Potter, Mariah, Lewis, Peggy, Paul, Annie
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s
- Locales: New York, NY
Born Flame Potter Richardson in 1949 on the small Caribbean island of Antigua, Jamaica Kincaid knows intimately the world of which she writes. Her first book, a collection of short stories entitled At the Bottom of the River (1983), provides impressionistic glimpses into the life of the island. Her second book, the strongly autobiographical novel Annie John (1985), chronicles the growth of a young girl as she struggles to find herself within the limits set by the island culture and by her mother, finally opting to leave her twelve-by- eight-mile island to pursue a career...
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