{"product_id":"putting-myself-together-writing-1975","title":"Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974-","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy ignorance was on my side. I wasn't afraid. I didn't know what to be afraid of. I did one thing, I did another. I did what I now call crashing about. One day I started to write.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection of Jamaica Kincaid's nonfiction writing, including early pieces from publications such as \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMs.\u003c\/i\u003e, proves what her admirers have always known: from the start, she has been a consummate stylist, and she has always been herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom \"Jamaica Kincaid's New York,\" which narrates her move to the city from Antigua at the age of sixteen and a half, to the classic \"Biography of a Dress,\" her cultural criticism, and her original thinking about the meaning of the garden, Kincaid writes about the world as she finds it, imparting her own quizzical, rapier-sharp response to whatever crosses her path.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePutting Myself Together \u003c\/i\u003eis a brilliant, trenchant, hilarious self-portrait of the artist and a testament to how this inimitable, self-created mind and spirit, endowed with wit, humor, and fearlessness, has become one of our greatest, most original writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44167951089763,"sku":"9781250437884","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0621\/7515\/0179\/files\/imageloader_929fcddf-7a8d-40c5-ab2e-45ac155849c5.jpg?v=1778181763","url":"https:\/\/redricebooks.com\/products\/putting-myself-together-writing-1975","provider":"Red Rice Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}