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A Distant Shore
Contributor(s): Phillips, Caryl (Author)

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ISBN: 1400034507     ISBN-13: 9781400034505
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2005
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Annotation: Dorothy is a retired schoolteacher who has recently moved to a housing estate in a small village. Solomon is a night-watchman, an immigrant from an unnamed country in Africa. Each is desperate for love. And yet each harbors secrets that may make attaining it impossible.
With breathtaking assurance and compassion, Caryl Phillips retraces the paths that lead Dorothy and Solomon to their meeting point: her failed marriage and ruinous obsession with a younger man, the horrors he witnessed as a soldier in his disintegrating native land, and the cruelty he encounters as a stranger in his new one. Intimate and panoramic, measured and shattering, A Distant Shore charts the oceanic expanses that separate people from their homes, their hearts, and their selves.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Psychological
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage
Dewey: FIC
Series: Vintage International
Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.46" W x 7.98" L (0.48 lbs) 288 pages
Features: Price on Product
Review Citations: New York Times 04/10/2005 pg. 36
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 104011
Reading Level: 6.1   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 17.0
 
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Dorothy is a retired schoolteacher who has recently moved to a housing estate in a small village. Solomon is a night-watchman, an immigrant from an unnamed country in Africa. Each is desperate for love. And yet each harbors secrets that may make attaining it impossible.
With breathtaking assurance and compassion, Caryl Phillips retraces the paths that lead Dorothy and Solomon to their meeting point: her failed marriage and ruinous obsession with a younger man, the horrors he witnessed as a soldier in his disintegrating native land, and the cruelty he encounters as a stranger in his new one. Intimate and panoramic, measured and shattering, A Distant Shore charts the oceanic expanses that separate people from their homes, their hearts, and their selves.
 
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