I gave this book as many chances as I could until page 107 and couldn't take the repetitive blather any longer. This novel of modest length by Jamaica Kincaid may be her most original and daring work to date. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. . The main characters are Mrs and Mr. Sweets and their son and daughter Hercules and Persephone. . With Kincaid, it's never a matter of what wins, only of what is.” ―Ms. She lives with her family in Vermont. Was it self serving? It is about marriage, and it is about everything else . Please try your request again later. In See Now Then, the brilliant and evocative new novel from Jamaica Kincaid—her first in ten years—a marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies. In Kincaid's new novel, "See Now Then," the central character, Mrs. Sweet, reads to her son from a book called "See Then Now." is bawdy humor and unabashed rage and sorrow . There is courage and brilliance here, and an unusual way of going about it. Long paragraphs running into pages at times, give us both history and context, a life lived, and a life coming undone, choices made and regrets felt. '” ―Karen Brady, Buffalo News“Damned, haunted and psychological . In her first work of fiction since 2002’s MR. POTTER, Jamaica Kincaid uses her considerable poetic gifts to chronicle the dissolution of a marriage between two artists. . . . Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2013. This is Jamaica Kincaid latest book. Often wondered where her life took her in such a long time.To admit how her husband hated her and was a philanderer, how she tried to hold her life together in the Shirley Jackson house. . . . Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 14, 2013. Please try again. . February 5, 2013 • See Now Then, Jamaica Kincaid's first novel in a decade, follows a neglected wife in a small New England town. It almost worked. SEE NOW THEN illuminates the interior breakdown of a marriage by weaving together the quotidian demands of daily domestic life with the metaphorical dimension of mythical perception. Throughout, Kincaid repeats the phrase “See Now Then”, implying that the past and the future are connected in some vague, obtuse way. Mrs Sweet recalls her childhood in St. John, Antigua. . . . Unable to add item to List. These items are shipped from and sold by different sellers. Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2013. We hurt for Mrs. Sweet, we pull for her, we identify with her passion for her children while we somewhat understand Mr. Sweet – and fairly jump for joy when Mrs. Sweet notes that, ‘Death has no Then and Now. The parents are very affectionate to their children and in particular Mr. Sweet keeps his daughter for himself and therefore, methaphorically constantly folded in his pocket. Something went wrong. With Kincaid, it's never a matter of what wins, only of what is.” ―Ms. Learn more about the program. See Now Then is Kincaid's attempt to make clear what is unclear, and to make unclear what we assumed was clear: that is, the beginning, the middle, and the end. The first is the way any work of art should be read: by simply absorbing what's on the page. Mrs. Sweet, a wife, mother, gardener, and writer living in Vermont, loves and adores her children, no matter how much they baffle and exhaust her. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Connoisseurs will find it delicious.” ―Alan Cheuse, Chicago Tribune, Book of the Month, “See Now Then is not simply a recounting of the entanglement, disappointment, betrayal, and quiescence that are the four corners of the institution of marriage, though it does that with great facility. To say that Mrs. Sweet conquers her terror is too pat a summary but by the end of the novel she has reached a kind of equilibrium. . There are very long sentences in the book and the narration is quick. . Kincaid's female protagonist-narrators triumph against those circumstances through literary intelligence. While it is true that even the most minor characters (usually retaining their actual names) have their counterparts in the real world, you do yourself a grave injustice if you read this book as an account of "what really happened" to those "real world" counterparts. Churning through the tenses, Mrs. Sweet's stream of consciousness is the narrative form: an aesthetic rendering of how time, memory and imagination create the fabric of being . Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. There was a problem loading your book clubs. As always with Ms. Kincaid's work, the prose is uncanny in its sinuous movement, *demonstrating* rather than asserting how our experience is an ever shifting liquid rope braided of what was, what is, and what will be. . Something we hope you'll especially enjoy: FBA items qualify for FREE Shipping and Amazon Prime. Athletic Heracles surrounds himself with toy armies. . . Start the series today! “Writers make uncomfortable kin . “See Now Then,” her first novel in 10 years, examines the hidden fault lines of a happy family that might be seen as an allegorical version of her own. Something we hope you'll especially enjoy: FBA items qualify for FREE Shipping and Amazon Prime. See Now Then is Kincaid's attempt to make clear what is unclear, and to make unclear what we assumed was clear: that is, the beginning, the middle, and the end. yes. . Amplified Bible For now [in this time of imperfection] we see in a mirror dimly [a blurred reflection, a riddle, an enigma], but then [when the time of perfection comes we will see reality] face to face. The novel unfurls in a third person stream-of-consciousness reminiscent of Virginia Woolf while standing firmly in Kincaid's unique voice & perspective. . HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: A national tour and publicity campaign will herald the publication of the first novel in 10 years by the distinctive, much-acclaimed, and fearless Kincaid. Those who treasure Kincaid's quirky lyricism will no doubt enjoy the challenge.” ―USA Today, “If there is a plot to See Now Then, it is the story of Mrs. Sweet's efforts to confront her own fear of the ‘round, turning world' --a fear that can no longer be assuaged by incantations of age and youth. . are lucidly examined in Jamaica Kincaid's latest novel . . Secrets draw them together, will lies tear them apart? Was it ever any different? Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2013. Kincaid's heady fiction doesn't unfold dramatically, but her prose does, vining and clinging to readers' ears, blooming into a tritone musical theory--see-now-then . Looking for your next series to binge? It is about marriage, and it is about everything else . In "See Now Then", Jamaica Kincaid tells us "As a young woman she had been like a flower found in the deep jungles of the new Americas; a black Dahlia, a brown marigold, a sea-green Zenia; when she was a young woman, the world was not her oyster, did not harbor her like it's oyster, providing a sweet space in which she became a pearl. . I loved reading Jamaica Kincaid's new book after ten year hiatus. See Now Then is Kincaid's attempt to make clear what is unclear, and to make unclear what we assumed was clear: that is, the beginning, the middle, and the end. . Reviewer Heller McAlpin says the book reads as … After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. They say we can’t have kids together. Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2017. Connoisseurs will find it delicious.” ―Alan Cheuse, Chicago Tribune, Book of the Month“See Now Then is not simply a recounting of the entanglement, disappointment, betrayal, and quiescence that are the four corners of the institution of marriage, though it does that with great facility. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. They were born worlds apart-But they’ll give anything to make a new home together. It talks about a family the Sweet and their difficulties with everyday life, in particular the decreasing love of Mr. Sweet for his wife. Unable to add item to List. . Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2020. When she was a young woman, it was her fear of death that kept her alive". has been added to your Cart. This book came at the appropriate time because of the shut-in in NYC. In See Now Then, she envelops the reader in a world that is both familiar and startling―creating her most emotionally and thematically daring work yet. . Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Please try again. “Writers make uncomfortable kin . We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John's, Antigua. . . What Jamaica Kincaid does in See Now Then, is to hold a mirror up to all our illusions--about writing, and about life--and she does so with inimitable craft and language.” ―Ru Freeman, The Nation (Sri Lanka), “Most readers feel protective of that little unit, the family. . It is a postmodern book by Jamaica Kincaid that seems to mirror her personal life (she has recently divorced). The novel See Now Then (2013) chronicles the late-life dissolution of a marriage by way of the jilted wife’s acerbic ruminations. Was it ever any different? is bawdy humor and unabashed rage and sorrow . . Rather, using available light, Ms. Kincaid has furthered the project of authors like Virginia Woolf who seek to portray the disturbing simultaneity of all the events in one's life--a simultaneity which both convention and language are always conspiring to disguise. The whole saga reveals itself before the backdrop of Time's ruthless and somehow flippantly random hold on us. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2020. Throughout, Kincaid repeats the phrase “See Now Then”, implying that the past and the future are connected in some vague, obtuse way. . I have read all her books. See Now Then is--by turns--lovely, even lilting, difficult, and condemning of Mr. Sweet. It is true, however, that here and there, in all of her work, Kincaid also at times seemed like she might be a difficult person to get along with. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Kincaid has the gift of endowing common experience with a mythic ferocity… [She] is one of our most scouringly vivid writers.” ―Fernanda Eberstadt, New York Times Book Review, “Chaucer's Wife of Bath meets Virginia Woolf! Was it self serving? Since the publication of her first short-story collection, At the Bottom of the River, which was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Kincaid has demonstrated a unique talent for seeing beyond and through the surface of things. . Jamaica Kincaid SEE NOW THEN : A Novel 1st Edition 1st Printing Hardcover New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013 Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. . Yes, and also much like the role of Winnie in the Samuel Beckett play ‘Happy Days'--both Winnie and Kincaid addressing us in a rush that we recognize as an actual process of thought . It was published in 2013. Magazine, “Pervasive in See Now Then . No matter she writes beautifully. Jamaica Kincaid’s latest novel, See Now Then, a work of experimental fiction that offers vast rewards in exchange for its challenges, has kicked up a bit of a fuss among some of its early critics. How far would you go?—“One of the best books I've read in a long time.”—Amazon Reviewer. . . Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2013. I read and really liked "At the Bottom of the River" and "My Brother," both of which books flashed enormous talent. . . As always with Ms. Kincaid's work, the prose is uncanny in its sinuous movement, *demonstrating* rather than asserting how our experience is an ever shifting liquid rope braided of what was, what is, and what will be. From the first pages, its intimate, matter of fact, stream of consciousness style blurs the lines between us and them, now and then, poetry and prose, reality and imagination . . . For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know fully just as I also have been fully known. In See Now Then, the brilliant and evocative new novel from Jamaica Kincaid―her first in ten years―a marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies. “See Now Then is a hurricane of a book, a novel of psychic bewilderment and seething inaction that relentlessly defines and redefines the sense of otherness and displacement that is the permanent legacy of slavery and colonialism. . Mrs. Sweet in these pages makes a verbal symphony . Could not finish it which is unusual for me. Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2020. These pages are filled with convoluted sentences and thoughts that echo the colossal mess of our minds, the way we as writers and human beings, speak to ourselves, narrating our own lives, and imagining the narration of others around us, spinning one yarn after another until it is quite impossible to distinguish where the story begins or ends. With the intensity of Virginia Woolf, Kincaid creates a palimpsest of time past, time present and time future . Boring life of uninteresting characters. If you're a seller, Fulfillment by Amazon can help you grow your business. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. If you're a seller, Fulfillment by Amazon can help you grow your business. Will Charlie survive the Pacific war bloodshed behind enemy lines? Or get 4-5 business-day shipping on this item for $5.99 Discover this addictive, feel-good, women's fiction family drama series set on Nantucket. Kincaid's attempt to capture living itself may just be, as she puts it, ‘always just out of reach,' but her talent for trying remains palpable on every page . . Read More Inspire your inbox – Sign up for daily fun facts about this day in history, updates, and special offers. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Please try your request again later. . Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. The Memory Box: A novel of love, death and memory. It is a postmodern book by Jamaica Kincaid that seems to mirror her personal life (she has recently divorced). I am a fan of Jamaica Kincaid's writing and was glad to add this to my collection. Worst of all though, is the titular conceit. When it breaks, as it so often does and most certainly will in this story, we experience the tragedy . This book came at the appropriate time because of the shut-in in NYC. We hurt for Mrs. Sweet, we pull for her, we identify with her passion for her children while we somewhat understand Mr. Sweet – and fairly jump for joy when Mrs. Sweet notes that, ‘Death has no Then and Now. . The electrifying sequel to "The Sympathizer" by Viet Viet Thanh Nguyen. . There are times towards the end where the narrative seemed inscrutable to me, but on the whole, I found this work to being a striking and intriguing read. The novel unfurls in a third person stream-of-consciousness reminiscent of Virginia Woolf while standing firmly in Kincaid's unique voice & perspective. . Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John's, Antigua. This piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her characters―a mother, a father, and their two children, living in a small village in New England―as they move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future: for, as she writes, "the present will be now then and the past is now then and the future will be a now then." . It is a novel, which leaves out the discussion of major themes, like colonialism and neo-colonialism, as Jamaica Kincaid does instead in the other books she has written. In this furious, funny, and sorrowful tirade and lament, Kincaid meshes autobiography with archetypes as the unraveling of an unlikely marriage turns into a heightened, hypnotic, and shrewdly complex inquiry into time, alienation, and metamorphosis. It is true, however, that here and there, in all of her work, Kincaid also at times seemed like she might be a difficult person to get along with. No matter she writes beautifully. . . . The overly fragmentary nature of "See Now Then" and flattened characters prevent it from being better than a song or ditty, let alone the symphony it has aspired to be. Could not finish it which is unusual for me. Please try again. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, My Brother, and Mr. Potter, all published by FSG. See Now Then is Kincaid's attempt to make clear what is unclear, and to make unclear what we assumed was clear: that is, the beginning, the middle, and the end. Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. Oh, but we did. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. There's a reflex in every writer that trumps even the maternal instinct, a part of her that, even while her newborn suckles at her breast, is cold-eyed, choosing words to describe the pit-bull clamp of its gums, the crusted globe of its skull, with the same dispassion which she might describe fellow passengers on a bus . Mrs Sweet recalls her childhood in St. John, Antigua. The good news is that everything works--Kincaid's style, story and startling way of telling a tale of the cosmos in terms of domesticity . Yes, and also much like the role of Winnie in the Samuel Beckett play ‘Happy Days'--both Winnie and Kincaid addressing us in a rush that we recognize as an actual process of thought . But their minds wander, trying to make linear sense of what is, in fact, nonlinear. The theme of time's inexorable march and how it colors our perspective is reinforced by sometimes abruptly shifting recollections. They say we can’t get married. . Boring life of uninteresting characters. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. . The main characters are Mrs and Mr. Sweets and their son and daughter Hercules and Persephone. Style of writing very strange, not a smooth read. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Her characters, constrained by the world, despair in their domestic situations. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. . The … . The first is the way any work of art should be read: by simply absorbing what's on the page. . Ms. Kincaid evokes the emotional brutality lurking behind the disintegration of a marriage as well as the inherent sense of cosiness that comes from creating and maintaining family life. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. In a recent New York Times profile, Kincaid said See Now Then didn’t come together for her until she thought of the title. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First edition (February 5, 2013). https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/see-now-then-jamaica-kincaid/1108946154 Intruders (A Jordan Quest FBI Thriller Book 1). Churning through the tenses, Mrs. Sweet's stream of consciousness is the narrative form: an aesthetic rendering of how time, memory and imagination create the fabric of being . Kincaid has created a measured, bewitching, and metaphysical fable, as well as a venomous, acidly comic, and plangent tale of love, betrayal, and loss that is at once slashingly personal and radiantly universal in its mystery, passion, and catharsis. She lives with her family in Vermont. SEE NOW THEN is one of the most beautiful nasty novels I have ever read. “See Now Then,” her first novel in 10 years, examines the hidden fault lines of a happy family that might be seen as an allegorical version of her own. . . I gave this book as many chances as I could until page 107 and couldn't take the repetitive blather any longer. It is marvelous to behold.” ―Hannah Gersen, The Millions“Bold and beautiful . The good news is that everything works--Kincaid's style, story and startling way of telling a tale of the cosmos in terms of domesticity . Kincaid's female protagonist-narrators triumph against those circumstances through literary intelligence. Kincaid’s foray into myth is profound and unnervingly surreal as Mrs. Sweet is forced to recognize that small, brooding Mr. Sweet, a frustrated musician and composer, now hates her. This piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her characters―a mother, a father, and their two children, living in a small village in New England―as they move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future: for, as she writes, "the present will be now then and the past is now then and the future will be a now then." Long paragraphs running into pages at times, give us both history and context, a life lived, and a life coming undone, choices made and regrets felt. Mrs. Sweet's grappling with time is beautiful and brutal: It acknowledges that our failures sometimes deny surmounting and, instead, resonate across memory into persistent, heart-rending permanence.” ―Walton Muyumba, Dallas Morning News. See Now Then A Novel Jamaica Kincaid Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 192 pp., $24 There are two ways to read Jamaica Kincaid's mesmerizing new novel, "See Now Then." Did Mr. Sweet, who so utterly resembles the absent-minded Mr. Ramsay from Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, ever truly love Mrs. Sweet, a modern-day Mrs. Ramsay--the mother who struggles every day to save her family from destruction, or just unhappiness?” ―Susan Salter Reynolds, Newsday“See Now Then is a hurricane of a book, a novel of psychic bewilderment and seething inaction that relentlessly defines and redefines the sense of otherness and displacement that is the permanent legacy of slavery and colonialism. However, another autobiographical book by Jamaica Kincaid may be her most and... 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