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The essential coming-of-age novel by Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. Kincaid''s novel focuses on a universal, tragic, and often comic theme: the loss of childhood. Annie''s voiceurgent, demanding to be heardis one that will not soon be forgotten by readers.

An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived an idyllic life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful presence, who is the very center of the little girl''s existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother''s benign shadow. Looking back on her childhood, she reflects, It was in such a paradise that I lived.

When she turns twelve, however, Annie''s life changes, in ways that are often mysterious to her. She begins to question the cultural assumptions of her island world; at school she instinctively rebels against authority; and most frighteningly, her mother, seeing

Annie John

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Published 5 January 1997
      ISBN-13 9780374525101
      978-0374525101
      ISBN-10 0374525102

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The essential coming-of-age novel by Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. Kincaid''s novel focuses on a universal, tragic, and often comic theme: the loss of childhood. Annie''s voiceurgent, demanding to be heardis one that will not soon be forgotten by readers.

      An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived an idyllic life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful presence, who is the very center of the little girl''s existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother''s benign shadow. Looking back on her childhood, she reflects, It was in such a paradise that I lived.

      When she turns twelve, however, Annie''s life changes, in ways that are often mysterious to her. She begins to question the cultural assumptions of her island world; at school she instinctively rebels against authority; and most frighteningly, her mother, seeing

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