Kincaid Jamaica - Mr. Potter A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: The revelatory (The New York Review of Books) story of an ordinary man his century and his home. Jamaica Kincaid's first obsession the island of Antigua comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter an illiterate chauffeur who makes his living along the wide open roads that pass the only towns he has ever seen. The sun shines squarely overhead the ocean lies on every side and suppressed passion fills the air. As Mr. Potter's narrative unfolds in linked vignettes his story becomes the story of a vital damaged community. Amid his surroundings he struggles to live at ease: to purchase a car to have girlfriends and to shake off the encumbrance of his daughters one of whom will return to Antigua after he dies and tell his story with equal measures of distance and sympathy. In Mr. Potter Kincaid breathes life into a figure unlike any other in contemporary fiction an individual consciousness emerging gloriously out of an unexamined life.
Title: Mr. Potter A Novel
Author(s): Kincaid Jamaica
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250340658
Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/7/2024
Category: Sagas