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Lucy: a novel
✍ Scribed by Kincaid, Jamaica
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 72 KB
- Edition
- 1st paperback ed., [repr.]
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1466828854
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✦ Synopsis
Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to America to work as an au pair for a wealthy couple. She begins to notice cracks in their beautiful façade at the same time that the mysteries of own sexuality begin to unravel. Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new heroine who is destined to win a place of honor in contemporary fiction.
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