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Mr Potter
- Author
- Jamaica Kincaid
- Narrator
- Robin Miles
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 8 August 2024
- Run Time
- 5 hours 28 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
‘Poetic and affecting’ - Robert Antoni, The Washington Post
Mr Potter, a taxi driver from Antigua, makes his living along the winding roads that pass through the only towns he has ever known. He sleeps, eats, drives, and tries to shake off his past. The sun shines squarely overhead, the ocean lies on every side, and suppressed passion fills the air.
From Jamaica Kincaid, one of today’s most accomplished writers, Mr Potter is an original, spellbinding portrait of a man and an island.
Now in the Picador Collection.
Critics Review
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What a writer – elegant, uncompromising, simultaneously direct and layered and complex.
Ali Smith
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‘Poetic and affecting’
Robert Antoni, The Washington Post
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Details
- Author
- Jamaica Kincaid
- Narrator
- Robin Miles
- Duration
- 5 hours 28 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 August 2024
- ISBN
- 9781529076707
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Family life fiction / Stories about family, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Narrative theme: sense of place
Synopsis
‘Poetic and affecting’ - Robert Antoni, The Washington PostMr Potter, a taxi driver from Antigua, makes his living along the winding roads that pass through the only towns he has ever known. He sleeps, eats, drives, and tries to shake off his past. The sun shines squarely overhead, the ocean lies on every side, and suppressed passion fills the air.From Jamaica Kincaid, one of today’s most accomplished writers, Mr Potter is an original, spellbinding portrait of a man and an island.Now in the Picador Collection.
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