At the Bottom of the River

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

18 West 18th Street, New York 10011

First published in 1983 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

First Farrar, Straus and Giroux paperback edition, 2000

Grateful acknowledgment is made to The New Yorker for the following stories, which first appeared in its pages: “Girl,” “In the Night,” “At Last,” “Wingless,” “Holidays,” “The Letter from Home,” and “At the Bottom of the River,” and to The Paris Review for “What I Have Been Doing Lately.”

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

Kincaid, Jamaica.

At the bottom of the river / Jamaica Kincaid.

p. cm.

Contents: Girl—In the night—At last—[etc.]

ISBN-13: 978-0-374-10660-7

ISBN-10: 0-374-10660-6

I. Title.

PS3561.I425A93

813'.54

83–16445

Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52734-1

Paperback ISBN-10: 0-374-52734-2

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eISBN 9781466837799

First eBook edition: January 2013