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Copyright © 1983, 1984, 1985 by Jamaica Kincaid

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Published in 1985 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

First Farrar, Straus and Giroux paperback edition, 1997

Grateful acknowledgment is made to The New Yorker, where the text of this book first appeared in slightly different form.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Kincaid, Jamaica

   Annie John /Jamaica Kincaid.

        p. cm.

   ISBN-13: 978-0-374-110521-1

   ISBN-10: 0-374-10521-9

   I. Title.

PS3561.I425A55 1985

813'.54

84-28630

Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52510-1

Paperback ISBN-10: 0-374-52510-2

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