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Product: A Distant Shore
Brand: Vintage
Color: White
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Product: Caryl Phillips: Plays One: Strange Fruit; Where There is Darkness; The Shelter (Oberon Modern Playwrights)
Description: Three plays by playwright and novelist Caryl Phillips, written in the 1980s and collected here for the first time.
Strange Fruit is a powerful study of a black family caught between two cultures; Where There is Darkness examines the plight of a West Indian man, Albert Williams, on the eve of his return to the Caribbean after an absence of twenty-five years; The Shelter alternates between the late eighteenth-century and 1950s London, exploring the relationship between a black man and a white woman.
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Product: Brave New Words: The Power of Writing Now
Description: Fifteen specially commissioned essays from distinguished authors explore the place of the writer, past and present, the value of critical thinking, and the power of the written word. Their work articulates ‘brave new words’ at the heart of battles against limitations on fundamental rights of citizenship, the closure of national borders, fake news, and an increasing reluctance to engage with critical democratic debate. Contributors include Eva Hoffman, Romesh Gunesekera, Githa Hariharan, James Kelman, Tabish Khair, Kei Miller, Blake Morrison, Mukoma wa Ngugi, Hsiao-Hung Pai, Olumide Popoola, Shivanee Ramlochan, Bina Shah, Raja Shehadeh and Marina Warner.
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Product: The European Tribe (Vintage International)
Description: In this richly descriptive and haunting narrative, Caryl Phillips chronicles a journey through modern-day Europe, his quest guided by a moral compass rather than a map. Seeking personal definition within the parameters of growing up black in Europe, he discovers that the natural loneliness and confusion inherent in long jorneys collides with the bigotry of the "European Tribe"-a global community of whites caught up in an unyielding, Eurocentric history.
Phillips deftly illustrates the scenes and characters he encounters, from Casablanca and Costa del Sol to Venice, Amsterdam, Oslo, and Moscow. He ultimately discovers that "Europe is blinded by her past, and does not understand the high price of her churches, art galleries, and history as the prison from which Europeans speak."
In the afterword to the Vintage edition, Phillips revisits the Europe he knew as a young man and offers fresh observations.
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Product: Dancing in the Dark (Vintage International)
Description: In this searing novel, Caryl Phillips reimagines the life of the first black entertainer in the U.S. to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune.After years of struggling for success on the stage, Bert Williams (1874—1922), the child of recent immigrants from the Bahamas, made the radical decision to don blackface makeup and play the “coon.” Behind this mask he became a Broadway headliner–as influential a comedian as Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and W. C. Fields, who called him “the funniest man I ever saw, and the saddest man I ever knew.” It is this dichotomy at Williams’ core that Phillips explores in this richly nuanced, brilliantly written novel, unblinking in its attention to the sinister compromises that make up an identity.
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Product: History and Race in Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood (Studies in English Literatures)
Brand: ibidem Press
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Product: Color Me English: Reflections on Migration and Belonging
Brand: The New Press
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Product: The Nature of Blood
Brand: Vintage
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Product: A New World Order: Essays
Brand: Vintage
Color: Cream
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Product: Crossing the River
Brand: Vintage
Color: White
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Product: Cambridge
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Product: The final passage
Brand: Brand: Faber n Faber
Description: Book by Phillips, Caryl
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Product: The Atlantic Sound
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Product: A View of the Empire at Sunset: A Novel
Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Product: The Lost Child: A Novel
Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Product: A State of Independence
Brand: Vintage
Color: Multicolor
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