Annie John. (Record no. 20517)
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| fixed length control field | 02321nam a2200265 u 4500 |
| 001 - ACCESSION NUMBER | |
| control field | ocm10254693 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | OSt |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20260128144042.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 820225s1985 nyu e f eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780099773818 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0374105219 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | CaOL |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Transcribing agency | DDC |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 820.091729 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Kincaid, Jamaica. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Annie John. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Farrar Straus Giroux, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1985. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 148 p. : |
| Dimensions | 21.5 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Also pub.: London : Vintage Books, 1997. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. A classic coming-of-age story in the tradition of The Catcher in the Rye and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Kincaid's novel focuses on a universal, tragic, and often comic theme: the loss of childhood. Annie's voice-urgent, demanding to be heard-is one that will not soon be forgotten by readers. An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived an idyllic life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful presence, who is the very center of the little girl's existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother's benign shadow. Looking back on her childhood, she reflects, "It was in such a paradise that I lived." When she turns twelve, however, Annie's life changes, in ways that are often mysterious to her. She begins to question the cultural assumptions of her island world; at school she instinctively rebels against authority; and most frighteningly, her mother, seeing Annie as a "young lady," ceases to be the source of unconditional adoration and takes on the new and unfamiliar guise of adversary. At the end of her school years, Annie decides to leave Antigua and her family, but not without a measure of sorrow, especially for the mother she once knew and never ceases to mourn. "For I could not be sure," she reflects, "whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world." |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Mothers and daughters |
| Geographic subdivision | Antigua and Barbuda |
| -- | Antigua |
| Form subdivision | Fiction. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Teenage girls |
| Geographic subdivision | Antigua and Barbuda |
| -- | Antigua |
| Form subdivision | Fiction. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Domestic fiction |
| Source of heading or term | genre. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Antigua |
| Form subdivision | Fiction. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Circ Books |
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