{"product_id":"at-the-bottom-of-the-river-by-jamaica-kincaid","title":"'At the Bottom of the River' by Jamaica Kincaid","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"49\" data-end=\"504\"\u003eJamaica Kincaid’s first book is made up of ten pieces move through childhood, domestic life, colonial inheritance, fear and sexuality\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"49\" data-end=\"504\"\u003eEvents arrive through repetition, image and sensory pressure, with language that's incantatory and sharply controlled. Throughout, imagery of houses, rivers, gardens, beds and bodies repeatedly shift between the ordinary and the mythic. Kincaid writes from Antigua without turning place into scenery; colonial power has entered the voice, the family and the child’s developing sense of reality. The title novella gathers these tensions into something stranger and more elemental, dissolving the boundary between self and world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"952\" data-end=\"1127\"\u003eThis is the Kincaid for readers drawn to Lispector, Woolf and the prose-poem tradition: formally compressed, emotionally severe and difficult to paraphrase without killing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1154\" data-end=\"1318\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVintage, 1997. Paperback. Moderate cover and edge wear, including creasing and a small closed tear at the upper corner; small ink mark to title page. Binding sound.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45850391609427,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-07-22T120400.596.png?v=1784686072","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/at-the-bottom-of-the-river-by-jamaica-kincaid","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}