State of Independence - Softcover

Phillips, Caryl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571196799 ISBN 13: 9780571196791

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 1999

Synopsis

Bertram Francis is a British West Indian who has spent the last twenty years away from the Caribbean. Now Independence is looming and he is going back to see the end of colonial rule. But the visit is not the nostalgic homecoming he expected and he finds himself an outsider in a place he thought was home.

'Caryl Phillips has proved himself among the best and most productive writers of his generation.' New York Times

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About the Author

Caryl Phillips was born in St Kitts, West Indies, in 1958. Brought up in England, he has written for television, radio, theatre and the screen.$$$He is the author of numerous books of fiction and non-fiction, including The Final Passage, Higher Ground, Cambridge, Crossing the River (shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize), The Nature of Blood, A State of Independence, Atlantic Sound and The European Tribe. He is also the editor of Extravagant Strangers and The Right Set, an anthology of writing on tennis. His adaptation of The Final Passage was directed by Peter Hall and screened by Channel Four. His awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Since 1998 he has been Professor of English and Henry R. Luce Professor of Migration and Social Order at Barnard College, Columbia University. He divides his time between homes in the UK and the USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571196799
• ISBN 13: 9780571196791
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160