The Autobiography of My Mother - Picador Collection

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador BooksXuela Claudette Richardson is recalling the last seventy years of her life, and so she must begin with her birth, and the accompanying death of her mother.Xuela's vivid, visceral recollections of the lonely, unsettled life that follows the trauma of her arrival include that of her distant father, who sends her away to another household at the earliest opportunity; of her passion for the stevedore Roland, who fulfils her sexually but not intellectually; and of her husband, who provides her with status and a wealthy lifestyle but whom she is incapable of loving.Poetic and disturbing, The Autobiography of My Mother is one of Kincaid's most powerful statements of Afro-Caribbean women's struggle for identity and independence, against a hostile backdrop of sexism and colonialism.Part of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature.

ISBN:	9781529076752
Publisher:	Pan Macmillan
Imprint:	Picador
Published date:	07 Jul 2022
DEWEY:	813.6
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Sales rank:	26015
Number of pages:	208
Weight:	152g
Height:	130mm
Width:	197mm
Spine width:	22mm

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