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Crossing the River

By Caryl Phillips

Crossing the River Contemporary literature

Crossing the River

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
258
Release Date:
1995-01-15
Publication Date:
1995-01-15
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0679757945
ISBN13:
9780679757948
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
292 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
15 cm

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