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1	The Atlantic Sound more books like this by Caryl Phillips add to wishlist 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 $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	A Distant Shore more books like this by Caryl Phillips add to wishlist 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 $8.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Heart of Darkness and Selections from the Congo Diary more books like this by Joseph Conrad, Low, Caryl Phillips (Introduction by) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.63! \| SVS
4	Cambridge more books like this by Caryl Phillips add to wishlist Two worlds, connected by the insult of slavery, are explored in this novel - the Caribbean plantation, and England. It is an account of inhumanity - of a self-pronounced Christian nation resistant to the black religious conversion in case they recognized that all people are equal under God. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Dancing in the Dark more books like this by Caryl Phillips add to wishlist 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
6	Crossing the River more books like this by Caryl Phillips add to wishlist 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 $8.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Nature of Blood more books like this by Caryl Phillips add to wishlist 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 $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Foreigners more books like this by Caryl Phillips add to wishlist 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 $1.99! new only from $8.61! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Extravagant Strangers: A Literature of Belonging more books like this by Caryl Phillips (Editor) add to wishlist Aiming to show that the "mongrelization" of Britain and British literature began well before the second half of the 20th century, this selection incorporates 18th-century black writers with direct experience of the slave trade, such as Ignatius Sancho and Olaudah Equiano. It also looks at white writers whose accident of birth took place in a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95!
10	Final Passage more books like this by Caryl Phillips add to wishlist Leila is 19 years old and living on a small Caribbean island in the 1950s. Her subsequent passage to England brings her face to face with the consequences of the decisions she has made to determine her life on her own terms. By the author of the prize-winning "Crossing the River". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	A New World Order: Essays more books like this by Caryl Phillips add to wishlist 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 $2.95! new only from $8.40! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Right Set: A Tennis Anthology more books like this by Caryl Phillips add to wishlist 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 $8.42! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Higher Ground: 2a Novel in Three Parts more books like this by Caryl Phillips add to wishlist Covering three ages, this novel begins in the Caribbean with the slave trade at its height and moves into the 1960s with a series of letters from prison of a black American convict to his family. The final part, set in England, tells of a West Indian who is determined to leave for his native land. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Foreigners: Three English Lives by Caryl Phillips add to wishlist Francis Barber, 'given' to the great eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson, afforded an unusual depth of freedom, which, after Johnson's death, would help hasten his wretched demise...Randolph Turpin, Britain's first black world champion boxer, who made history in 1951 by defeating Sugar Ray Robinson, and who ended his life in debt and despair. ... see all copies from $5.62! new only from $14.41!
15	The Right Set: The Faber Book of Tennis more books like this by Caryl Phillips add to wishlist From Samuel Pepys to Martin Amis, tennis has attracted the attention of many prominent writers, perhaps because there are often other considerations on court, such as politics, class, sex, money, gender or race. This anthology contains pieces by novelists, journalists and players. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $12.01! \| first editions
16 view cover	The European Tribe more books like this by Caryl Phillips add to wishlist This is a journey across Europe in an attempt to clarify the fundamental questions of identity - to "come to terms with what it is like to feel both of, and not of, Europe". In a series of snapshots, Caryl Phillips provides an account of an exploration of the heart and mind, and Europe. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	New World Order more books like this by Caryl Phillips add to wishlist This text ranges widely across the Atlantic World that Caryl Phillips has charted in his novels and non-fiction books since 1980. Phillips begins by introducing the reader to books by such authors as James Baldwin, Joseph Conrad and Richard Wright. He then goes on to reflect on the work of such seminal figures as Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul and ... see all copies from $5.11! new only from $15.67! \| first editions
18 view cover	Higher ground more books like this by Caryl Phillips add to wishlist An attempt to explore the psyche of the black world, this novel is in three parts. The author has written many scripts, and his previous books include "The Final Passage" winner of the Malcolm X award, and "A State of Independence", which won the 1987 Martin Luther King Memorial Prize. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	A State of Independence more books like this by Caryl Phillips add to wishlist One exile's homecoming stands in for an entire region's transition from colonialism to a questionable state of independence. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20	Playing Away more books like this by Caryl Phillips add to wishlist see all copies from $21.00! signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	In the Falling Snow more books like this by Caryl Phillips add to wishlist At once intimate and expansive, deeply moving in its portrayal of the vagaries of familial love, and bold in its scrutiny of the personal and societal politics of race, this novel is Phillips's most powerful yet. see all copies from $6.48! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
22	Sonido del Atlantico, El more books like this by Caryl Phillips add to wishlist see all copies from $19.48!
23	Strange fruit more books like this by Caryl Phillips add to wishlist see all copies from $125.00!
24	Speak Fiction and Poetry more books like this by Betsy Sussler, Caryl Phillips, Ronalde Shavers add to wishlist This text presents an anthology of "BOMB" magazine's interviews with writers. The writers featured include Walter Mosley, Russell Banks, Jeanette Winterson, Paul Auster, Michael Ondaatje, Graham Swift, Peter Carey, Caryl Phillips, Willem Dafoe, Sheila Bosworth and Padgett Powell. see all copies from $37.80! new only from $51.74!
25 view cover	Foreigners: Three English Lives by Caryl Phillips add to wishlist Francis Barber, 'given' to the great eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson, afforded an unusual depth of freedom, which, after Johnson's death, would help hasten his wretched demise...Randolph Turpin, Britain's first black world champion boxer, who made history in 1951 by defeating Sugar Ray Robinson, and who ended his life in debt and despair. ... see all copies from $6.27! new only from $20.99!

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