Crossing the River by Phillips, Caryl

Crossing the River (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679757948)

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Crossing the River by Phillips, Caryl

Crossing the River

$19.00
Crossing the River by Phillips, Caryl

Crossing the River

$19.00
Format: Paperback
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From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness, which forces a father to sell his three children into slavery. Employing a brilliant range of voices and narrative techniques, Caryl Phillips folows these exiles across the river that separates continents and centuries.

Phillips's characters include a freed slave who journeys to Liberia as a missionary in the 1830s; a pioneer woman seeking refuge from the white man's justice on the Colorado frontier; and an African-American G.I. who falls in love with a white Englishwoman during World War II. Together these voices make up a "many-tongued chorus" of common memory--and one of the most stunning works of fiction ever to address the lives of black people severed from their homeland.

Author: Caryl Phillips
ISBN-10: 0679757945
ISBN-13: 9780679757948
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 01/15/1995
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.18w x 0.57d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/15/1998 pg. 979
Publishers Weekly 12/19/1994
By Caryl Phillips
By Caryl Phillips
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Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, West Indies. Brought up in England, he has written for television, radio, theater, and film. He is the author of three previous books of nonfiction, The European Tribe, The Atlantic Sound, and A New World Order, and six novels, The Final Passage, A State of Independence, Higher Ground, Cambridge, Crossing the River, and The Nature of Blood, and has edited two anthologies, Extravagant Strangers and The Right Set. His 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. Phillips lives in New York.

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