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100 1 $aPhillips, Caryl.
245 10 $aCrossing the river /$cCaryl Phillips.
260 $aLondon :$bBloomsbury,$c1993.
300 $a237 pages ;$c24 cm
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500 $aA novel.
520 $a"A desperate foolishness. The crops failed. I sold my children."
520 8 $aSo begins Caryl Phillips's superb new novel: a voice speaking out of a distant past, describing the consequences of his desperation - his daughter and two sons condemned to the hold of an English slave ship bound for America in 1753. What follow are the stories of these children: Nash, Martha and Travis. Yet as the narrative unfolds, we come to understand that although they are his children, they are also all of slavery's children: Nash, returning to Africa in the 1830s a Christian-educated adult, a missionary to the new territory of Liberia, slowly becoming a part of the world his 'masters' intended him to convert ... Martha, her own daughter and husband sold away from her, settling in the American 'wild west' of the late nineteenth century, freeing herself from slavery but never from the weight of 'such misery in one life' ...
520 8 $aTravis, an American GI stationed in a small Yorkshire village during the Second World War, finding an acceptance in England that he doesn't know at home and that he may not be able to promise his half-English son ... These brilliantly resonant stories - along with the slave ship captain's journal and the lamentations of the children's father - become a 'many-tongued chorus of a common memory' so vivid and powerful that it bridges the gaps between continents and centuries, inextricably linking the many generations of the African diaspora, one to the other. Crossing the River - masterfully conceived and crafted, driven by a powerful emotional force - is a bold confirmation of Caryl Phillips's singular gifts.
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