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Lucy

Lucy

Lucy
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Lucy: A Novel

by Jamaica Kincaid

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Macmillan, 2002. 1st. Fine. The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations--newly available in paperbackLucy, 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, alomst at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful facade. 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 unravelling 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 clearsightedness and ferocious integrity--a captivating heroine for our time. Hardcover Box 3

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9780374527358
Title
Lucy
Author
Jamaica Kincaid
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Edition
1st
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0374527350
ISBN 13
9780374527358
Publisher
Macmillan
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, Virginia, U.s.a.
Date Published
2002
Pages
163

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