Higher Ground (Vintage International) - Softcover

Phillips, Caryl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679763767 ISBN 13: 9780679763765

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1995

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Book by Phillips Caryl

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Reseña del editor:

This searing novel about slavery and its legacy brings the same stylistic virtuosity and tightly focused intelligence of Phillips's other novels. Higher Ground tells multiple stories, set generations and continents apart but unified by their ambitious exploration of themes of race, power, captivity, and abuse.
 
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.

Biografía del autor:

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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• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679763767
• ISBN 13: 9780679763765
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224