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The Autobiography of My Mother
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Hardcover
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With Christian Schnee | from Farrar Straus & Giroux (January 1, 1997)
9780374107321 | details & prices | List price $20.00
This edition also contains Political Reputation Management: The Strategy Myth
About: Jamaica Kincaid's new novel is narrated by a seventy-year old West Indian woman looking back on her life and evoking the relationships that have given it meaning.
from Farrar Straus & Giroux (January 1, 1996)
9780374107314 | details & prices | 228 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $20.00
About: A seventy-year-old West Indian woman looks back over the course of her life and examines the relationships that have given meaning to her existence
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Farrar Straus & Giroux (May 7, 2013)
9780374531874 | details & prices | 228 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.46 lbs | List price $14.00
Reprint edition from Plume (January 1, 1997)
9780452274662 | details & prices | 228 pages | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $15.00
About: A seventy-year-old West Indian woman looks back over the course of her life and examines the relationships that have given meaning to her existence
Cassette/Spoken Word
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Unabridged edition from Airplay Inc (January 1, 1996)
9781885608093 | details & prices | 4.75 × 7.25 × 1.50 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $21.95
About: "The mesmerizing, harrowing, richly metaphorical autobiography of 70-year-old Xuela Claudette Richardson.
Reinforced
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from Demco Media (October 30, 2004)
9780606299916 | details & prices | 228 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $23.50
About: A seventy-year-old West Indian woman looks back over the course of her life and examines the relationships that have given meaning to her existence
Prebinding
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from Turtleback Books (October 1, 1999)
9780613030595 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $20.40
About: Narrated by an elderly West Indian woman looking back on her life, a story beginning at the height of imperialism and ending as colonialism fades deals with sex, human relations, and the interplay of power and powerlessness.
from Turtleback Books (January 1, 1997); titled "Autobiography of My Mother"
9781417636204 | details & prices | 5.50 × 7.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $25.80
About: A seventy-year-old West Indian woman looks back over the course of her life and examines the relationships that have given meaning to her existence