The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid’s most admired creations
Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and Mariah are a thrice-blessed couple—handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Yet, almost at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful façade. With mingled anger and compassion, Lucy scrutinizes the assumptions and verities of her employers’ world and compares them with the vivid realities of her native place. Lucy has no illusions about her own past, but neither is she prepared to be deceived about where she presently is.
At the same time that Lucy is coming to terms with Lewis’s and Mariah’s lives, she is also unraveling the mysteries of her own sexuality. Gradually a new person unfolds: passionate, forthright, and disarmingly honest. In Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new character possessed with adamantine clear-sightedness and ferocious integrity—a captivating heroine for our time.
© 2017 Blackstone Publishing (Ljudbok): 9781504743310
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Ljudbok: 23 maj 2017
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The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid’s most admired creations
Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and Mariah are a thrice-blessed couple—handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Yet, almost at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful façade. With mingled anger and compassion, Lucy scrutinizes the assumptions and verities of her employers’ world and compares them with the vivid realities of her native place. Lucy has no illusions about her own past, but neither is she prepared to be deceived about where she presently is.
At the same time that Lucy is coming to terms with Lewis’s and Mariah’s lives, she is also unraveling the mysteries of her own sexuality. Gradually a new person unfolds: passionate, forthright, and disarmingly honest. In Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new character possessed with adamantine clear-sightedness and ferocious integrity—a captivating heroine for our time.
© 2017 Blackstone Publishing (Ljudbok): 9781504743310
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 23 maj 2017
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Ulrika
21 nov. 2021
Vacker prosa. Många lager: samhälle, klass, moderskap, frigörelse. Nobelpris-värdig.
Jenny
26 feb. 2021
Really good. Gillar Kincaid
Bea
23 mars 2022
Välskriven och intressant, men huvudpersonen/berättaren framstår ofta som osympatisk då hon visar bristande empati för alla omkring henne - detta är nog en del av vad som gör boken intressant, men blir ibland också påfrestande att lyssna på
Elisabeth
7 nov. 2021
Fascinerande! Vet inte riktigt vad jag tycker om boken. Kommer att tänka på den. Härligt med något som inte är självklart!
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