Putting Myself Together

Jamaica Kincaid author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Pan Macmillan

Publishing:11th Sep '25

£20.00

This title is due to be published on 11th September, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Putting Myself Together cover

A landmark collection of essays by the iconic writer Jamaica Kincaid.

That’s the way I write. It’s never going to stop. And the more it makes people annoyed the more I will do it.

Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson in Antigua in 1949. She has always been herself. Her work began to be published after she moved to New York at the age of nineteen, and by 1974 she was contributing to The New Yorker’s ‘Talk of the Town’ column, where she later became a staff writer.

This is is a blazing collection that spans more than five decades of Jamaica Kincaid’s writing. From Muhammad Ali, Diana Ross, gardening and motherhood, to colonialism and the act of writing, Putting Myself Together shows how this witty and fearless writer became one of the most remarkable and influential voices of a generation.

‘An unaffectedly sumptuous, irresistible writer’ -- Susan Sontag
What a writer – elegant, uncompromising, simultaneously direct and layered and complex’ -- Ali Smith, author of Gliff
‘I’ve read everything by Jamaica Kincaid, and I’ve still never read anyone like her. If you are new to Kincaid, I envy you’ -- Jackie Kay, author of May Day
‘Both a daughter of Brontë and Woolf and her own inimitable self’ -- The Wall Street Journal

ISBN: 9781035036103

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

352 pages