Higher Ground by Phillips, Caryl

Higher Ground (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679763765)

Vendor: Caryl Phillips
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Format: Paperback
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Higher Ground by Phillips, Caryl

Higher Ground

$15.00
Higher Ground by Phillips, Caryl

Higher Ground

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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A searing novel about slavery and its legacy that tells multiple stories, set generations and continents apart but unified by their ambitious exploration of themes of race, power, captivity, and abuse--from "a master ventriloquist [who] giv[es] immediacy and voice to an impressive range of vivid characters about whom the reader cares deeply" (San Francisco Chronicle).

In a slave garrison in Africa, a native collaborator betrays his people and humiliates himself in order to win the favor of white men. From an American prison cell in the 1960s, a black convict tries to impart his vision of race and justice to his indifferent family. And in a dreary city in postwar England, a displaced Jewish refugee watches her youth and sanity slip down the drain of history.

Combined and in the skilled hands of Phillips, these narratives take on a devastating power.

Author: Caryl Phillips
ISBN-10: 0679763767
ISBN-13: 9780679763765
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 10/31/1995
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.23w x 0.66d
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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