Mr. Potter - by Jamaica Kincaid (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Kincaid's first obsession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffeur. 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>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)</b> <p/>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.<br>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 daughters--one of whom will return to Antigua after he dies and tell his story with equal measures of distance and sympathy. <p/>In<i> Mr. Potter</i>, Kincaid breathes life into a figure unlike any other in contemporary fiction, an individual consciousness emerging gloriously out of an unexamined life.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Kincaid has, magically, transformed the reader's consciousness, so we realize with a shock that we've moved, with the narrator, from a coldhearted contempt for Mr. Potter to a kind of purified, unsentimental sympathy." --<i>Ben Neihart, The Sun (Baltimore)</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Jamaica Kincaid</b>'s recent books include <i>Talk Stories</i> (FSG, 2001), a volume of her <i>New Yorker </i>writings. In 2000 she was awarded the Prix Fémina Étranger for<i> My Brother</i> (FSG, 1997). She lives in Vermont with her family.</p>
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