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Mr. Potter
Mr. Potter: A Novel | Jamaica Kincaid
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The story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home: "Kincaid's most poetic and affecting novel to date" (Robert Antoni, The Washington Post Book World) Jamaica Kincaid's first obssession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffeur who makes his living along the roads that pass through the only towns he has ever seen and the graveyard where he will be buried. The sun shines squarely overhead, the ocean lies on every side, and suppressed passion fills the air. Ignoring the legacy of his father, a poor fisherman, and his mother, who committed suicide, Mr. Potter struggles to live at ease amid his surroundings: to purchase a car, to have girlfriends, and to shake off the encumbrance of his daughtersone of whom will return to Antigua after he dies and tell his story with equal measures of distance and sympathy. In Mr. Potter, Kincaid breathes life into a figure unlike any other in contemporary fiction, an individual consciousness emerging gloriously out of an unexamined life.
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DreesReads
Mr. Potter: A Novel | Jamaica Kincaid
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Pickpick

This unusual short novel (my copy was

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Adventures_of_a_French_Reader
Mr. Potter: A Novel | Jamaica Kincaid
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Bailedbailed

I abandoned this reading... I just couldn't bear the writing style (paraphrases again and again). It just prevented me to focus, and to take any interest in the story. Because I hate repetition, this book was just a torture for me to read. It is the first time that a book creates such a repulsive effect on me. Have you ever experienced that???

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Lesliereads
Mr. Potter: A Novel | Jamaica Kincaid
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Pickpick

A pick for me though I can see how Kincaid's poetic brooding might bother some readers. Mr. Potter meditates on knowing a father who was never known - imagining him and his beginnings and how he came to become a father to many unacknowledged daughters. It is also about the power of literacy, and being able to write one's self into being and visibility. #daughterstories #jamaicakincaid #readCaribbean

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Adventures_of_a_French_Reader
Mr. Potter: A Novel | Jamaica Kincaid
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I love #bookmail! Another book #tbr for my #WorldTour challenge ;)

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