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See Now Then
See Now Then | Jamaica Kincaid
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In "See Now Then," the brilliant and evocative new novel from Jamaica Kincaid her first in ten years a marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies. This piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her characters a mother, a father, and their two children, living in a small village in New England as they move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future: for, as she writes, "the present will be now then and the past is now then and the future will be a now then." Her characters, constrained by the world, despair in their domestic situations. But their minds wander, trying to make linear sense of what is, in fact, nonlinear. "See Now Then "is Kincaid's attempt to make clear what is unclear, and to make unclear what we assumed was clear: that is, the beginning, the middle, and the end. Since the publication of her first short-story collection, "At the Bottom of the River," which was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Kincaid has demonstrated a unique talent for seeing beyond and through the surface of things. In "See Now Then," she envelops the reader in a world that is both familiar and startling creating her most emotionally and thematically daring work yet."
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overtheedge
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The writing style will turn off many, because it stream of consciousness with the use of many metaphors in very long sentences and paragraphs that are entire page with no comma. You either love it or hate it. Once I had the style down, I was glad I made the effort because this book really is great and thought provoking.
I loved this!
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TheAnitaAlvarez Oooh, I loved Jamaica Kincaid when I read her in college, I‘ll look this one up! 6y
readordierachel Sounds really interesting. I read this one by her earlier this year and enjoyed it quite a bit 6y
overtheedge This is such an awesome book.....so far I've never been disappointed with Jamaica Kincaid. 6y
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overtheedge
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" As a young woman she had been like a flower found in the deep jungles of the new Americas: a black dahlia, a brown marigold, a sea- green zinnia; when she was a young woman, the world was not her oyster, did not harbor her like its oyster, providing a sweet space in which she became a pearl; when she was a young woman, younger than Heracles, it was her fear of death that kept her alive. "

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Simone_Gibson
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...and time moved on in the way it always would, always will, then and now intertwined, losing uniqueness, difference, distinction, subject only to laws of human consciousness.

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HardcoverHarlot
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This book will totally not work for a lot of people, but I really got into the flow of the repetition and flowing sentences.

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HardcoverHarlot
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Whoa with the run-on sentences. But I knew this would be a challenging read.

TrishB That looks like hard work! 8y
PurpleyPumpkin Wow😳 8y
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CarolS
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I was riveted by this book from the first word. It is truthful in a haunting way that I love. I really want to read all of her books now, just have to find the time.