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See Now Then
- Author
- Jamaica Kincaid
- Narrator
- Jamaica Kincaid
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 8 August 2024
- Run Time
- 5 hours 43 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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Read by the author, Jamaica Kincaid.
‘If revenge is a dish best served cold, See Now Then is a baked alaska in reverse, chilling on the outside, screaming hot at the center’ - New York Times
Mr and Mrs Sweet live in a house in the small town of Bennington, New England. While Mr Sweet grew up in the dining rooms of the Plaza Hotel and in the audience of the city ballet, Mrs Sweet arrived in the United States on a banana boat, sailing from Dominica.
A blazing, unflinching portrait of a couple trying to make sense of the relationship they’ve settled for, See Now Then is the first novel in a decade from Jamaica Kincaid, one of today’s most celebrated writers.
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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If revenge is a dish best served cold, See Now Then is a baked alaska in reverse, chilling on the outside, screaming hot at the center
New York Times
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Details
- Author
- Jamaica Kincaid
- Narrator
- Jamaica Kincaid
- Duration
- 5 hours 43 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 August 2024
- ISBN
- 9781529076745
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Family life fiction / Stories about family, Narrative theme: love / relationships
Synopsis
Read by the author, Jamaica Kincaid.‘If revenge is a dish best served cold, See Now Then is a baked alaska in reverse, chilling on the outside, screaming hot at the center’ - New York TimesMr and Mrs Sweet live in a house in the small town of Bennington, New England. While Mr Sweet grew up in the dining rooms of the Plaza Hotel and in the audience of the city ballet, Mrs Sweet arrived in the United States on a banana boat, sailing from Dominica.A blazing, unflinching portrait of a couple trying to make sense of the relationship they’ve settled for, See Now Then is the first novel in a decade from Jamaica Kincaid, one of today’s most celebrated writers.Now in the Picador Collection.
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