A State of Independence - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571196799 ISBN 13: 9780571196791

Publisher: Faber and Faber

Synopsis

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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.

From Library Journal

Bertram Francis left St. Kitts as a boy to study law in England. Now, 20 years later, he returns home, expecting a triumphant welcome from family and friends. But things quickly go awry: he sweats profusely in his English shirt and tie, feels cramped in his mother's tiny shack, discovers that the beer is much more potent than it used to be, and in general has a hard time convincing anyone that he's a native. What's worse, his mother is furious with him for never bothering to write, the "best friend" whom he hopes will find him a job denies that they were ever friends, and his former girlfriend seems to expect him to marry her. Phillips doesn't break any new ground in this short novel, and his prose style is competent but not exactly inspired. Suitable mainly for larger collections of Caribbean literature. Edward B. St. John, Loyola Marymount Univ. Lib., Los Angeles
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Edition details

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571196799
• ISBN 13: 9780571196791
• Binding: Paperback