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Covering three ages, this novel begins in the Caribbean with the slave trade at its height, and moves into the 1960s with a series of letters from a black American convict to his family. The final part, set in England, tells of a West Indian who is determined to leave for his native land.
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"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)
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"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)
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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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0330328832
- ISBN 13 9780330328838
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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Book Description Paperback. 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. 1993. A very good copy only marked by light age tanning to the pages, a previous owners name to the first page and a price sticker on the rear wrap. {"length"=>["20"], "width"=>["13"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}. Seller Inventory # 11862307
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Bon. Petite(s) trace(s) de pliure sur la couverture. Légères traces d'usure sur la couverture. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de ce livre à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Slightly creased cover. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this book's net price to charity organizations. Seller Inventory # C-711-044
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