Higher Ground: A Novel in Three Parts: Heartland; the Cargo Rap; Higher Ground - Softcover

Phillips, Caryl

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9780140118063: Higher Ground: A Novel in Three Parts: Heartland; the Cargo Rap; Higher Ground

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ISBN 10: 0140118063 ISBN 13: 9780140118063

Publisher: Penguin, 1989

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An attempt to explore the psyche of the black world, this novel is in three parts. The author has written many scripts, and his previous books include "The Final Passage" winner of the Malcolm X award, and "A State of Independence", which won the 1987 Martin Luther King Memorial Prize.

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Review:

"The second story in particular is probably the best thing Phillips has ever done" (Financial Times)

"Remarkable... every page of Phillips writing is convincing, a frightful part of our collective consciousness" (Washington Post)

"Higher Ground is about the destruction of lives, about damage done in one generation being passed on to another. Phillips' book has an urgency and intensity which demands that you read more... to take account of what the voices he has imagined have to say" (London Review of Books)

"Caryl Phillips has proved himself among the best and most productive writers of his generation" (The Times)

"The understated relation between the three parts is haunting and the whole is a work of total conviction" (Sunday Times)

From the Publisher:

A novel in three parts, bound together with passion and sorrow, Higher Ground forms a haunting triptych of the dispossessed and the abandoned

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