An edition of Crossing the river (1993)

Crossing the river

1st American ed.
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An edition of Crossing the river (1993)

Crossing the river

1st American ed.
  • 4.0 (2 ratings) ·
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From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness, which forces a father to sell his three children into slavery. Employing a brilliant range of voices and narrative techniques, Caryl Phillips folows these exiles across the river that separates continents and centuries.

Phillips's characters include a freed slave who journeys to Liberia as a missionary in the 1830s; a pioneer woman seeking refuge from the white man's justice on the Colorado frontier; and an African-American G.I. who falls in love with a white Englishwoman during World War II. Together these voices make up a "many-tongued chorus" of common memory—and one of the most stunning works of fiction ever to address the lives of black people severed from their homeland.

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Language
English
Pages
237

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Crossing the River
Crossing the River
March 2001, Faber & Faber Ltd
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: Crossing the river
Crossing the river
1995, Vintage International
in English
Cover of: Crossing the river
Crossing the river
1994, Knopf Canada
in English - 1st Canadian ed.
Cover of: Crossing the river
Crossing the river
1994, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English - 1st American ed.
Cover of: Crossing the river
Crossing the river
1994, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English - 1st American ed.
Cover of: Crossing the river
Crossing the river
1993, Bloomsbury
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR9272.S263 P4728 1994, PR9272.S263P4728

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
237

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1424979M
Internet Archive
crossingriver00phil
ISBN 10
067940533X
LCCN
93035933
OCLC/WorldCat
28962836
Library Thing
232262
Goodreads
1769988

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