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A startlingly beautiful novel about marriage by one of our most scouringly vivid writers (The New York Times Book Review).

In See Now Then, Jamaica Kincaid's brilliant and evocative novel, a marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies. This piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her charactersa mother, a father, and their two children, living in a small village in New Englandas they move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future: for, as she writes, the present will be now then and the past is now then and the future will be a now then. Her characters, constrained by the world, despair in their domestic situations. But their minds wander, trying to make linear sense of what is, in fact, nonlinear.

See Now Then is Kincaid's attempt to make clear what is unclear, and to make unclear what we assumed

See Now Then

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      Publisher St Martin's Press
      Published 11/18/2024
      ISBN-13 9781250340641
      978-1250340641
      ISBN-10 1250340640

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A startlingly beautiful novel about marriage by one of our most scouringly vivid writers (The New York Times Book Review).

      In See Now Then, Jamaica Kincaid's brilliant and evocative novel, a marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies. This piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her charactersa mother, a father, and their two children, living in a small village in New Englandas they move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future: for, as she writes, the present will be now then and the past is now then and the future will be a now then. Her characters, constrained by the world, despair in their domestic situations. But their minds wander, trying to make linear sense of what is, in fact, nonlinear.

      See Now Then       is Kincaid's attempt to make clear what is unclear, and to make unclear what we assumed

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