Cambridge - Softcover

Phillips, Caryl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571204074 ISBN 13: 9780571204076

Publisher: Faber & Faber Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

Explores the feelings of uncertainty that defined the period of time between the abolition of slavery and the emancipation of the slaves. It is the story of Emily Cartwright, an Englishwoman sent to visit her father's plantation in the West Indies, and of Cambridge, a plantation slave.

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From the Inside Flap:

One of England's most widely acclaimed young novelists adopts two eerily convincing narrative voices and juxtaposes their stories to devastating effect in this mesmerizing portrait of slavery. Cambridge is a devoutly Christian slave in the West Indies whose sense of justice is both profound and self-destructive, while Emily is a morally-blind, genteel Englishwoman.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0571204074
• ISBN 13: 9780571204076
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192