Lucy: A Novel (14 page)

Also by Jamaica Kincaid

At the Bottom of the River

Annie John

A Small Place

The Autobiography of My Mother

My Brother

My Favorite Plant
[editor]

My Garden (Book):

Talk Stories

Mr. Potter

Jamaica Kincaid

LUCY

Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John’s, Antigua. Her books include
At the Bottom of the River; Annie John; The Autobiography of My Mother; My Brother; My Garden (Book):; My Favorite Plant,
a collection of writing on gardens that she edited;
Talk Stories,
a collection of her
New Yorker
writings; and, most recently,
Mr. Potter,
all of which were published by FSG. In 2000 she was awarded the Prix Fémina Étranger for
My Brother.
She lives with her family in Vermont.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

18 West 18th Street, New York 10010

Copyright © 1990 by Jamaica Kincaid

All rights reserved

Published in 1990 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

First Farrar, Straus and Giroux paperback edition, 2002

Each of the chapters in this book originally appeared, in an earlier form, in
The New Yorker.

“Put Yourself in My Place,” by John Thornton / Brian Holland / Edward Holland Jr. and Lamont Dozier.

Copyright © 1965 by Stone Agate Music.

Used by permission.

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

Kincaid, Jamaica.

   Lucy / Jamaica Kincaid.— 1st edition.

      p.  cm.

   ISBN-13: 978-0-374-19434-5

   ISBN-10: 0-374-19434-3

   1.  West Indian Americans—Fiction.   2.  Women Domestics—Fiction.   3.  New York (N.Y.)—Fiction.   I.  Title.

PR9275.A583 K5638 1990

813—dc20

90083987

Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52735-8

Paperback ISBN-10: 0-374-52735-0

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eISBN 9781466828858

First eBook edition: September 2012