A State of Independence

Phillips, Caryl

ISBN 10: 0374269769 / ISBN 13: 9780374269760

Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986, 1986

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1st U.S. edition VG/NF (light foxing on the upper edge of the textblock; bottom edge shows evidence of water exposure).

Seller Inventory # 5108

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A State of Independence
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374269769
• ISBN 13: 9780374269760
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

When Bertram Francis returns to his native St. Kitts after a twenty-year sojourn in England, the mangy, flamboyant island that greets him is astonishingly unchanged. Yet time and the bitternes of his island-bound family and friends have made him a stranger among familiar faces and landsmarks. A State of Independence recounts the first three days of Bertram's inauspicious homecoming, which coincides with the island's liberation from British rule.

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.