Jamaica Kincaid (15 page)

—Phil Thomas,
The Chattanooga News

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Copyright
©
1983, 1984, 1985 by Jamaica Kincaid

All rights reserved

Published in 1985 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

First Farrar, Straus and Giroux paperback edition, 1997

Grateful acknowledgment is made to
The New Yorker,
where the text of this book first appeared in slightly different form.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Kincaid, Jamaica

   
Annie John /Jamaica Kincaid.

        
p. cm.

   
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-110521-1

   
ISBN-10: 0-374-10521-9

   
I. Title.

PS3561.I425A55 1985

813'.54

84-28630

Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52510-1

Paperback ISBN-10: 0-374-52510-2

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eISBN 9781466837782

First eBook edition: January 2013