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A New World Order [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Caryl Phillips
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 The Africa of his ancestry, the Caribbean of his birth, the Britain of his upbringing, and the United States where he now lives are the focal points of award-winning writer Caryl Phillips? profound inquiry into evolving notions of home, identity, and belonging in an increasingly international society.At once deeply reflective and coolly prescient, A New World Order charts the psychological frontiers of our ever-changing world. Through personal and literary encounters, Phillips probes the meaning... more info>>
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Dancing in the Dark [Secure Mobipocket]
by Caryl Phillips
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A searing new novel that reimagines the remarkable, tragic, little-known life of Bert Williams (1874-1922), the first black entertainer in the United States to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune. Even as an eleven-year-old child living in Southern California in the late 1800s--his family had recently emigrated from the Bahamas--Bert Williams understood that he had to "learn the role that America had set aside for him." At the age of twenty-two, after years of struggling for success on ... more info>>
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Foreigners [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Caryl Phillips
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From an acclaimed, award-winning novelist comes this brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact: the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak resoundingly to the problem of race in British society. With his characteristic grace and forceful prose, Phillips describes the lives of three very different men: Francis Barber, "given" to the 18th-century writer Samuel Johnson, whose friendship with Johnson led to his wretched demise; Randolph Turpin, a boxing champion who en... more info>>
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In the Falling Snow [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Caryl Phillips
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From one of our most admired fiction writers: the searing story of breakdown and recovery in the life of one man and of a society moving from one idea of itself to another. Keith--born in England in the early 1960s to immigrant West Indian parents but primarily raised by his white stepmother--is a social worker heading a Race Equality unit in London whose life has come undone. He is separated from his wife of twenty years (whose family "let her go" when she married a black man), kept at arm's le... more info>>
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The Atlantic Sound [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Caryl Phillips
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In this fascinating inquiry into the African Diaspora, Caryl Phillips embarks on a soul-wrenching journey to the three major ports of the transatlantic slave trade. Juxtaposing stories of the past with his own present-day experiences, Phillips combines his remarkable skills as a travel essayist with an astute understanding of history. From an West African businessman's interactions with white Methodists in nineteenth-century Liverpool to an eighteenth-century African minister's complicity in the... more info>>
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The Nature of Blood [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Caryl Phillips
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A German Jewish girl whose life is destroyed by the atrocities of World War II ... her uncle, who undermines the sureties of his own life in order to fight for Israeli statehood ... the Jews of a 15th-century Italian ghetto . . Othello, newly arrived in Venice ... a young Ethiopian Jewish woman resettled in Israel. These are the extraordinary people who inhabit Caryl Phillips' eloquent and moving new novel, and whose stories are connected by circumstance, spirit, and blood across the centuries.
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