Higher Ground - a Novel in Three Parts: Heartland; the Cargo Rap; Higher Ground - Hardcover

Phillips, Caryl

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670826200 ISBN 13: 9780670826209

Publisher: Viking, 1989

Synopsis

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 prison of 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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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

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0670826200
• ISBN 13: 9780670826209
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224