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Higher Ground - (Vintage International) by Caryl Phillips (Paperback)

Higher Ground - (Vintage International) by  Caryl Phillips (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This searing novel about slavery and its legacy brings the same stylistic virtuosity and tightly focused intelligence of Phillips's other novels. <i>Higher Ground</i> tells multiple stories, set generations and continents apart but unified by their ambitious exploration of themes of race, power, captivity, and abuse. <p/> In a slave garrison in Africa, a native collaborator betrays his people and humiliates himself in order to win the favor of white men. From an American prison cell in the 1960s, a black convict tries to impart his vision of race and justice to his indifferent family. And in a dreary city in postwar England, a displaced Jewish refugee watches her youth and sanity slip down the drain of history. <p/> Combined and in the skilled hands of Phillips, these narratives take on a devastating power.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Caryl Phillips</b> was born in St. Kitts, West Indies, and brought up in England. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction. His novel <i>Dancing in the Dark</i> won the 2006 PEN/Beyond Margins Award, and an earlier novel, <i>A Distant Shore</i>, won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. His other awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and currently lives in New York.

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