Mr. Potter Γ¨ un tassista analfabeta che vive in una delle isole piΓΉ belle del mondo, un "posto piccolo" incastonato nell'azzurro del mar dei Caraibi. Nasce nel 1922 e la sua vita scorre parallela a quella della sua terra, Antigua, una terra da cui non uscirΓ tutta la vita. Figlio di un modesto pesca
Mr. Potter
β Scribed by Kincaid, Jamaica
- Book ID
- 109103238
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 120 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780374706166
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β¦ Synopsis
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)
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.
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.
In Mr. Potter , Kincaid breathes...
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