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Crossing the River
Contributor(s): Phillips, Caryl (Author)

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 ISBN: 0679757945     ISBN-13: 9780679757948
Publisher: Vintage
OUR PRICE: $18.05  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 1995
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Annotation: From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness, which forces a father to sell his three children into slavery. Employing a brilliant range of voices and narrative techniques, Caryl Phillips folows these exiles across the river that separates continents and centuries.
Phillips's characters include a freed slave who journeys to Liberia as a missionary in the 1830s; a pioneer woman seeking refuge from the white man's justice on the Colorado frontier; and an African-American G.I. who falls in love with a white Englishwoman during World War II. Together these voices make up a "many-tongued chorus" of common memory--and one of the most stunning works of fiction ever to address the lives of black people severed from their homeland.

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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical - General
- Fiction | African American - Historical
Dewey: FIC
Series: Vintage International
Physical Information: 0.57" H x 5.18" W x 8.01" L (0.43 lbs) 256 pages
Features: Price on Product
Review Citations: Booklist 02/15/1998 pg. 979
Publishers Weekly 12/19/1994
 
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From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness, which forces a father to sell his three children into slavery. Employing a brilliant range of voices and narrative techniques, Caryl Phillips folows these exiles across the river that separates continents and centuries.

Phillips's characters include a freed slave who journeys to Liberia as a missionary in the 1830s; a pioneer woman seeking refuge from the white man's justice on the Colorado frontier; and an African-American G.I. who falls in love with a white Englishwoman during World War II. Together these voices make up a "many-tongued chorus" of common memory--and one of the most stunning works of fiction ever to address the lives of black people severed from their homeland.
 
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