Copyright © 2001 by Jamaica Kincaid Foreword copyright © 2001 by Ian Frazier All rights reserved

 

 

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Designed by Jonathan D. Lippincott

 

 

eISBN 9780374706258

First eBook Edition : April 2011

 

 

First edition, 2001

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kincaid, Jamaica.
Talk stories / Jamaica Kincaid.
p. cm.

ISBN 13: 978-0-374-52791-4

I. Title.

PR9275.A583 K56385 2000

00-042684

These works, with the exception of Ian Frazier’s Foreword and Jamaica Kincaid’s Introduction, first appeared in The New Yorker. Grateful acknowledgment is made to George Trow for permission to reprint “West Indian Weekend.”