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The Atlantic Soundby Caryl PhillipsISBN 0099429969 (0-09-942996-9)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Atlantic Sound'Book summary:Caryl Phillips has established himself as one of the supreme chroniclers of African dispossession and exile. In previous works such as The European Tribe and Crossing the River, he documents the ironies of post-colonial history. Phillips's latest book is perhaps best described as a "meditation," although it is also a fine and invigorating book. The subject of Phillips's broodings is that of displacement, diaspora, homelessness--all those things that ineluctably accompany any descendant of West African slaves. Phillips himself was born in St. Kitts, West Indies, in 1958, and so here he retraces the first transatlantic journey he made with his mother in the late 1950s, by banana boat from the Caribbean to the gray shores of the Mother Country. He visits three cities central to the slave trade: Liverpool, Elmina in Ghana, and Charleston. Finally in Israel, he finds a community of 2,000 African Americans who have lived in the Negev desert for 30 years. Wholly absorbing, always surprising, brilliantly observant, sensitive to human tragedy but never pessimistic, Phillips writes as beautifully as ever. "It is futile to walk into the face of history. As futile as trying to keep the dust from one's eyes in the desert." --Christopher Hart, Amazon.co.uk [via]
Cambridgeby Caryl PhillipsISBN 0099520567 (0-09-952056-7)
Softcover, Random House
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Crossing the Riverby Caryl PhillipsISBN 0394280903 (0-394-28090-3)
Softcover, Knopf Canada
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- Crossing the River: ISBN 0330333046 (0-330-33304-6)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan - Crossing the River: ISBN 0394280768 (0-394-28076-8)
Softcover, Random House of Canada, Limited - Crossing the River: ISBN 0003303381 (0-00-330338-1)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited - Crossing the River: ISBN 0394280350 (0-394-28035-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Canada - Crossing the River: ISBN 0394280903 (0-394-28090-3)
Softcover, Knopf Canada
- Crossing the River: ISBN 0330333046 (0-330-33304-6)
The European Tribeby Caryl PhillipsISBN 0375707042 (0-375-70704-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The European Tribe'Book summary:In this richly descriptive and haunting narrative, Caryl Phillips chronicles a journey through modern-day Europe, his quest guided by a moral compass rather than a map. Seeking personal definition within the parameters of growing up black in Europe, he discovers that the natural loneliness and confusion inherent in long jorneys collides with the bigotry of the "European Tribe"-a global community of whites caught up in an unyielding, Eurocentric history.
Phillips deftly illustrates the scenes and characters he encounters, from Casablanca and Costa del Sol to Venice, Amsterdam, Oslo, and Moscow. He ultimately discovers that "Europe is blinded by her past, and does not understand the high price of her churches, art galleries, and history as the prison from which Europeans speak."
In the afterword to the Vintage edition, Phillips revisits the Europe he knew as a young man and offers fresh observations. [via]
The Final Passageby Caryl PhillipsISBN 0140127968 (0-14-012796-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Foreigners: Three English Livesby Caryl PhillipsISBN 009948885X (0-09-948885-X)
Hardcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foreigners: Three English Lives'Book summary:Francis Barber, 'given' to the great eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson, afforded an unusual depth of freedom, which, after Johnson's death, would help hasten his wretched demise...Randolph Turpin, Britain's first black world champion boxer, who made history in 1951 by defeating Sugar Ray Robinson, and who ended his life in debt and despair...David Oluwale, a Nigerian stowaway who arrived in Leeds in 1949, the events of whose life and death would question the reality of English justice, and serve as a wake-up call for the entire nation. Each of these men's stories is told in a different, perfectly realized voice. Each illuminates the complexity and drama that lie behind the tragedy of their lives. And each explores the themes at the heart of Caryl Phillips' work - belonging, identity, and race. [via]
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Heart of Darkness & Selections from the Congo Diaryby Joseph Conrad, Caryl PhillipsISBN 0072435135 (0-07-243513-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness & Selections from the Congo Diary'Book summary:Introduction by Caryl PhillipsCommentary by H. L. Mencken, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chinua Achebe, and Philip GourevitchOriginally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century's most enduring works of fiction. Written several years after Joseph Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and the thin line between civilization and barbarity. This edition contains selections from Conrad's Congo Diary of 1890-the first notes, in effect, for the novel, which was composed at the end of that decade. Virginia Woolf wrote of Conrad: "His books are full of moments of vision. They light up a whole character in a flash. . . . He could not write badly, one feels, to save his life." [via]
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Higher Groundby Caryl PhillipsISBN 0140118063 (0-14-011806-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Nature of Bloodby Caryl PhillipsISBN 0099520575 (0-09-952057-5)
Softcover, Random House
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A New World Orderby Caryl PhillipsISBN 0099428172 (0-09-942817-2)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A New World Order'Book summary:"A New World Order" ranges widely across the Atlantic World that Caryl Phillips has charted in his award winning novels and non-fiction. He argues that there is a new world order of cultural plurality, one which is being promoted by the increasingly central role of the migrant and the refugee in the modern world. He goes on to reflect on the work of such seminal figures as Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer, Steven Spielberg, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Marvin Gaye. Phillips writes about the moment when St. Kitts, the island of his birth, became independent and talks about the responsibility of being a writer born into a postcolonial world who lives on both sides of the Atlantic. He turns the spotlight on Britain, speculating about his parents migration in the late fifties, the continued legacy of racism, his own helpless loyalty to Leeds United, and his anxieties at feeling as though he is both of, and not of, Britain. [via]
The Right Set: A Tennis Anthologyby Caryl PhillipsISBN 0375706461 (0-375-70646-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A State of Independenceby Caryl PhillipsISBN 0374269769 (0-374-26976-9)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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