An edition of Mi Hermano (1997)

My brother

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An edition of Mi Hermano (1997)

My brother

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Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. The youngest of four children, highly intelligent, well read, and a charming, handsome, and seductive personality, he had also been involved in a murder at the age of fourteen, adopted the manner of a Rastafarian, and been a heavy user of drugs. A dreamer who aroused both love and anger, he died painfully and alone in his mother's house.

Jamaica Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and shockingly frank recounting of her brother's story is also the story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation revolving around the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. The unblinking investigation of a life that ended too early speaks volumes about the difficult truths at the heart of all families.

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Vintage
Language
English
Pages
197

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Subjects

Family Antiguan and Barbudan Novelists Family relationships Siblings Rastafari movement Families Brothers and sisters Sida Récits personnels AIDS (Disease) Antiguan Novelists Biography Novelists, Antiguan Patients Women Biographies Bruder Erlebnisbericht Famille Sterben Aids Rastafarisme Family, caribbean area Authors, caribbean Siblings, juvenile literature Family, juvenile literature Authors, juvenile literature Authors Women authors

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Jamaica Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid Family

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Antigua Antigua and Barbuda Antiqua

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Cover of: Mi Hermano
Mi Hermano
December 2002, Plaza & Janes Editories Sa
Paperback in Spanish
Cover of: Mon frère
Mon frère
January 7, 2000, Editions de l'Olivier
Paperback in French
Cover of: My brother
My brother
1998, Vintage
in English
Cover of: My brother
My brother
1997, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

First published: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997.

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Dewey Decimal Class
813
Library of Congress
PR9275.A583 K5639 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
197 p. ;
Number of pages
197

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL18396178M
ISBN 10
0099275430
LibraryThing
117933
Goodreads
195600

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Work ID
OL2664670W

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