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1	Crossing the River more books like this by Caryl Phillips In desperate financial straights, a father sells his three children into slavery. Using a range of voices and experimental narrative techniques, Phillips follows the scattered children across continents and through time to wherever their lives lead them: the hold of a slave ship, an African mission, Colorado, and an English village during the war. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	A Distant Shore more books like this by Caryl Phillips Dorothy Jones has had a hell of a time. Her parents are dead, her late sister was badly abused by her husband, Dorothy's own husband abandoned her for a younger woman, her subsequent boyfriends have been losers, and she has just been fired from her schoolteaching job. At this low point in her life, her only friend is a handyman named Solomon who ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.55! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Cambridge more books like this by Caryl Phillips One of England's most widely acclaimed young novelists adopts two eerily convincing narrative voices and juxtaposes their stories to devastating effect in this mesmerizing portrait of slavery. Cambridge is a devoutly Christian slave in the West Indies whose sense of justice is both profound and self-destructive, while Emily is a morally-blind, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.72! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Nature of Blood more books like this by Caryl Phillips A multi-layered novel about a German Jewish girl during World War II, her uncle's fight for Israeli statehood, Othello in Venice, and a young Ethiopian woman in Israel. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Atlantic Sound more books like this by Caryl Phillips Caribbean writer Caryl Phillips considers many aspects of racism in general and the slave trade in particular, including an account of the prejudices he encountered as a Caribbean black in Liverpool, the Africans who collaborated with the slavers in the 18th and 19th centuries, the ironies inherent in blacks' "returning" to Africa, and his own ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Dancing in the Dark more books like this by Caryl Phillips Caryl Phillips's eighth novel is set in Harlem in the early 20th century and is based on a real person: Bert Williams ((1874-1922), who emigrated from the Bahamas as a child and went on to became a sought-after vaudeville performer. His claim to fame was his stereotypical portrayal of blacks--playing, in blackface, a comic character known as a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The European Tribe more books like this by Caryl Phillips In his only full-length work of nonfiction, novelist Carly Phillips explores in personal literary essays what it is like to be a black man traveling in Europe, while examining the meaning of exile, citizenship, and global community. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	A State of Independence more books like this by Caryl Phillips One exile's homecoming stands in for an entire region's transition from colonialism to a questionable state of independence. see all copies from $2.01! new only from $9.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Higher ground more books like this by Caryl Phillips see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.78! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Final Passage more books like this by Caryl Phillips As nineteen-year-old Leila surveys her island home from the ship that will carry her, her husband, and baby to England, she contemplates the Caribbean life of the 1950s that is chaotic, hand-to-mouth, and offers no way but out. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Higher Ground: 2a Novel in Three Parts more books like this by Caryl Phillips see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12	New World Order more books like this by Caryl Phillips 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's profound inquiry into evolving notions of home, identity, and belonging in an increasingly international society. see all copies from $14.27! new only from $19.81! \| first editions
13 view cover	The Right Set: A Tennis Anthology more books like this by Caryl Phillips From stately lawns and gentlemen players to Andre Agassi and Venus Williams, 65 great writings on tennis chronicle the transformation of the sport in our time. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.35! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	A New World Order: Essays more books like this by Caryl Phillips Essays by an Afro-Caribbean novelist on writers and other artists who, like himself, are in some way "stateless," including V. S. Naipaul, James Baldwin, Nadine Gordimer, and the singer Marvin Gaye. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.50! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Foreigners more books like this by Caryl Phillips A brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical facts, this novel tells the stories of three black men whose lives speak resoundingly to the place and role of the foreigner in English society. see all copies from $2.95! new only from $13.27! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Extravagant Strangers: A Literature of Belonging more books like this by Caryl Phillips (Editor) Extravagant Strangers is renowned author Caryl Phillips's very personal response to the popular idea that "outsiders" in Britain are currently reinvigorating the literary canon. Phillips shows that in fact English literature has never been homogenous: it has been shaped and influenced by outsiders for at least two hundred years. Included in ... see all copies from $2.45! new only from $7.95! \| first editions
17	The Right Set: The Faber Book of Tennis more books like this by Caryl Phillips see all copies from $4.95! new only from $9.69! \| first editions
18	Playing Away more books like this by Caryl Phillips see all copies from $4.05! signed copies \| first editions
19	Foreigners: Three English Lives by Caryl Phillips see all copies from $11.99! new only from $17.23!
20	Speak Fiction and Poetry!: The Best of BOMB Magazine's Interviews with Writers more books like this by Betsy Sussler, Caryl Phillips, Ronalde Shavers An anthology of interviews first published in "Bomb" magazine, a journal of contemporary arts. see all copies from $39.27! new only from $40.75!
21	The shelter more books like this by Caryl Phillips A West Virginia Girl Guides camp in 1963 is the setting for Jayne Anne Phillips's exploration of primitive evil. Two sisters, Lenny and Alma, are separated in different tents. Alma is upset about their mother, while Lenny is concerned with her best friend, Cap, who has been abandoned by her own mother. Buddy, the wide-eyed eight year old son of ... see all copies from $59.99! signed copies \| first editions
22	Strange fruit more books like this by Caryl Phillips see all copies from $70.00! signed copies \| first editions
23	Where there is darkness more books like this by Caryl Phillips see all copies from $63.00! signed copies \| first editions
24	Sonido del Atlantico, El more books like this by Caryl Phillips see all copies from $26.64!
25	La Traversèe Du Fleuve by Caryl Phillips see all copies from $56.29! new only from $56.29!

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