A State of Independence by Phillips, Caryl

A State of Independence (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679759300)

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A State of Independence by Phillips, Caryl

A State of Independence

$15.00
A State of Independence by Phillips, Caryl

A State of Independence

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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Phillips examines the transitions of a Caribbean nation from colonialism to a dubious state of independence through the experiences of Bertram Francis, a young man who leaves St. Kitts at the age of thirteen to study law on a coveted scholarship in England. Twenty years later he returns, chastened by failure, hoping to succeed at "something that doesn't make me dependent upon the white man." The rejections Francis faced in England are nothing to those that greet him in his homeland, where the resentments of the people he abandoned are exceeded only by the cynicism of the old friends who have prospered under the new regime.

Author: Caryl Phillips
ISBN-10: 0679759301
ISBN-13: 9780679759300
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 01/15/1995
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.68h x 6.02w x 0.43d
By Caryl Phillips
By Caryl Phillips
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Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, West Indies, and brought up in England. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction. His novel Dancing in the Dark won the 2006 PEN/Beyond Margins Award, and an earlier novel, A Distant Shore, won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. His other awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and currently lives in New York.

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