{"product_id":"putting-myself-together-writing-1974-9781250437884","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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250437884\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d","brand":"Jamaica Kincaid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52679633338549,"sku":"9781250437884","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/putting-myself-together-writing-1974-9781250437884","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}