![]() ![]() ![]() Kincaid’s native Antigua is central in her writing. Nonetheless, it was At the Bottom of the River that won for Kincaid the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award for short fiction and that contained “Girl,” a story written as a stream of instructions from a mother to a daughter, which is her best-known piece. ![]() Though the individual pieces in each work have a self-contained unity, Annie John and Lucy also have a clear continuity from story to story, something less true of the impressionistic writing of At the Bottom of the River thus, it is often considered a collection of short stories, while Annie John and Lucy are clearly novels. Most of the pieces that constitute At the Bottom of the River and Annie John were first published in The New Yorker, as were the chapters of Lucy. She began her career by mastering the short story, the form from which her longer fiction grew. More so than many fiction writers, she is an autobiographical writer whose life and art are inextricably woven together. Jamaica Kincaid (born, May 25, 1949) is known for her impressionistic prose, which is rich with detail presented in a poetic style, her continual treatment of mother-daughter issues, and her relentless pursuit of honesty. ![]()
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