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Caryl Phillips 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 Dancing in the Dark won the 2006 PEN/Beyond Margins Award, and an earlier novel, A Distant Shore, 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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Heart of Darkness and Selections from The Congo Diary
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: August 10, 1999
Price: $7.95
With an Introduction by Caryl Phillips
Commentary by H.L. Mencken, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chiua Achebe, and Philip Gourevitch
"Heart of Darkness," which appeared at the very beginning of our century, was a Cassandra cry announcing the end of Victorian Europe, on the verge of transforming itself... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: August 10, 1999
Price: $7.95
With an Introduction by Caryl Phillips
Commentary by H.L. Mencken, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chiua Achebe, and Philip Gourevitch
"Heart of Darkness," which appeared at the very beginning of our century, was a Cassandra cry announcing the end of Victorian Europe, on the verge of transforming itself... Read more >
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The Nature of Blood
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 28, 1998
Price: $13.00
In his most ambitious novel to date, Phillips creates a dazzling kaleidoscope of historical fiction, one that illuminates the dark legacy of Europe's obsession with race and blood. At the center of The Nature of Blood is a young woman, a Nazi death camp survivor, devastated by the loss of everyone... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 28, 1998
Price: $13.00
In his most ambitious novel to date, Phillips creates a dazzling kaleidoscope of historical fiction, one that illuminates the dark legacy of Europe's obsession with race and blood. At the center of The Nature of Blood is a young woman, a Nazi death camp survivor, devastated by the loss of everyone... Read more >
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A Distant Shore
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $14.95
Dorothy is a retired schoolteacher who has recently moved to a housing estate in a small village. Solomon is a night-watchman, an immigrant from an unnamed country in Africa. Each is desperate for love. And yet each harbors secrets that may make attaining it impossible.
With breathtaking assurance and compassion, Caryl Phillips... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $14.95
Dorothy is a retired schoolteacher who has recently moved to a housing estate in a small village. Solomon is a night-watchman, an immigrant from an unnamed country in Africa. Each is desperate for love. And yet each harbors secrets that may make attaining it impossible.
With breathtaking assurance and compassion, Caryl Phillips... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Dancing in the Dark
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $13.95
In this searing novel, Caryl Phillips reimagines the life of the first black entertainer in the U.S. to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune.
After years of struggling for success on the stage, Bert Williams (1874—1922), the child of recent immigrants from the Bahamas, made the radical decision to don... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $13.95
In this searing novel, Caryl Phillips reimagines the life of the first black entertainer in the U.S. to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune.
After years of struggling for success on the stage, Bert Williams (1874—1922), the child of recent immigrants from the Bahamas, made the radical decision to don... Read more >
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Cambridge
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: February 2, 1993
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: February 2, 1993
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
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Crossing the River
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 15, 1995
Price: $14.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 15, 1995
Price: $14.00
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... Read more >
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In the Falling Snow
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $25.95
From one of our most admired fiction writers: the searing story of breakdown and recovery in the life of one man and of a society moving from one idea of itself to another.
Keith—born in England in the early 1960s to immigrant West Indian parents but primarily raised by his white stepmother—is... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $25.95
From one of our most admired fiction writers: the searing story of breakdown and recovery in the life of one man and of a society moving from one idea of itself to another.
Keith—born in England in the early 1960s to immigrant West Indian parents but primarily raised by his white stepmother—is... Read more >
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The Right Set
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: July 27, 1999
Price: $15.00
From stately lawns and gentlemen players to Andre Agassi and Venus Williams: 65 great writings on tennis that chronicle the transformation of the sport.
Since its inception, tennis has embraced traditions more patrician than plebeian. But times--and tennis--have changed. The game once reserved for royalty has moved from estate lawns to the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: July 27, 1999
Price: $15.00
From stately lawns and gentlemen players to Andre Agassi and Venus Williams: 65 great writings on tennis that chronicle the transformation of the sport.
Since its inception, tennis has embraced traditions more patrician than plebeian. But times--and tennis--have changed. The game once reserved for royalty has moved from estate lawns to the... Read more >
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eBook.
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A New World Order
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2002
Price: $14.00
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’ profound inquiry into evolving notions of home, identity, and belonging in an increasingly international society.
At once deeply reflective and... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2002
Price: $14.00
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’ profound inquiry into evolving notions of home, identity, and belonging in an increasingly international society.
At once deeply reflective and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Final Passage
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: October 31, 1995
Price: $15.00
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Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: October 31, 1995
Price: $15.00
Read more >
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The Atlantic Sound
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $13.95
In this fascinating inquiry into the African Diaspora, Caryl Phillips embarks on a soul-wrenching journey to the three major ports of the transatlantic slave trade.
Juxtaposing stories of the past with his own present-day experiences, Phillips combines his remarkable skills as a travel essayist with an astute understanding of history. From... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $13.95
In this fascinating inquiry into the African Diaspora, Caryl Phillips embarks on a soul-wrenching journey to the three major ports of the transatlantic slave trade.
Juxtaposing stories of the past with his own present-day experiences, Phillips combines his remarkable skills as a travel essayist with an astute understanding of history. From... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The European Tribe
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: May 2, 2000
Price: $15.00
In this richly descriptive and haunting narrative, Caryl Phillips chronicles a journey through modern-day Europe, his quest guided by a moral compass rather than a map. Seeking personal definition within the parameters of growing up black in Europe, he discovers that the natural loneliness and confusion inherent in long jorneys collides with... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: May 2, 2000
Price: $15.00
In this richly descriptive and haunting narrative, Caryl Phillips chronicles a journey through modern-day Europe, his quest guided by a moral compass rather than a map. Seeking personal definition within the parameters of growing up black in Europe, he discovers that the natural loneliness and confusion inherent in long jorneys collides with... Read more >
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Foreigners
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $14.95
From an acclaimed, award-winning novelist comes this brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact: the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak resoundingly to the problem of race in British society.
With his characteristic grace and forceful prose, Phillips describes the lives of three very different men: Francis Barber... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $14.95
From an acclaimed, award-winning novelist comes this brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact: the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak resoundingly to the problem of race in British society.
With his characteristic grace and forceful prose, Phillips describes the lives of three very different men: Francis Barber... Read more >
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Dancing in the Dark
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $23.95
A searing new novel that reimagines the remarkable, tragic, little-known life of Bert Williams (1874—1922), the first black entertainer in the United States to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune.
Even as an eleven-year-old child living in Southern California in the late 1800s–his family had recently emigrated from the... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $23.95
A searing new novel that reimagines the remarkable, tragic, little-known life of Bert Williams (1874—1922), the first black entertainer in the United States to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune.
Even as an eleven-year-old child living in Southern California in the late 1800s–his family had recently emigrated from the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Foreigners
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2007
Price: $24.95
A powerful and affecting new book from Caryl Phillips: a brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact that tells the stories of three black men whose lives speak resoundingly to the place and role of the foreigner in English society.
Francis Barber, “given” to the great eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson, more... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2007
Price: $24.95
A powerful and affecting new book from Caryl Phillips: a brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact that tells the stories of three black men whose lives speak resoundingly to the place and role of the foreigner in English society.
Francis Barber, “given” to the great eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson, more... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Extravagant Strangers
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $16.95
Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $16.95
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Higher Ground
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 31, 1995
Price: $15.00
Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 31, 1995
Price: $15.00
Read more >
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A State of Independence
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: January 15, 1995
Price: $15.00
Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: January 15, 1995
Price: $15.00
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The Atlantic Sound
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 25, 2009
Price: $13.95
Liverpool, England; Accra, Ghana; Charleston, South Carolina. These were the points of the triangle forming the major route of the transatlantic slave trade. And these are the cities that acclaimed author Caryl Phillips explores--physically, historically, psychologically--in this wide-ranging meditation on the legacy of slavery and the impact of the African diaspora... Read more >
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 25, 2009
Price: $13.95
Liverpool, England; Accra, Ghana; Charleston, South Carolina. These were the points of the triangle forming the major route of the transatlantic slave trade. And these are the cities that acclaimed author Caryl Phillips explores--physically, historically, psychologically--in this wide-ranging meditation on the legacy of slavery and the impact of the African diaspora... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Dancing in the Dark
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95
A searing new novel that reimagines the remarkable, tragic, little-known life of Bert Williams (1874—1922), the first black entertainer in the United States to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune.
Even as an eleven-year-old child living in Southern California in the late 1800s–his family had recently emigrated from the... Read more >
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95
A searing new novel that reimagines the remarkable, tragic, little-known life of Bert Williams (1874—1922), the first black entertainer in the United States to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune.
Even as an eleven-year-old child living in Southern California in the late 1800s–his family had recently emigrated from the... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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A Distant Shore
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
From Caryl Phillips—acclaimed author of The Nature of Blood and The Atlantic Sound—a masterful new novel set in contemporary England, about an African man and an English woman whose hidden lives, and worlds, are revealed in their fragile, fateful connection.
Dorothy and Solomon live in a new housing estate on the outskirts... Read more >
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
From Caryl Phillips—acclaimed author of The Nature of Blood and The Atlantic Sound—a masterful new novel set in contemporary England, about an African man and an English woman whose hidden lives, and worlds, are revealed in their fragile, fateful connection.
Dorothy and Solomon live in a new housing estate on the outskirts... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Foreigners
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $14.95
From an acclaimed, award-winning novelist comes this brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact: the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak resoundingly to the problem of race in British society.
With his characteristic grace and forceful prose, Phillips describes the lives of three very different men: Francis Barber... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $14.95
From an acclaimed, award-winning novelist comes this brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact: the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak resoundingly to the problem of race in British society.
With his characteristic grace and forceful prose, Phillips describes the lives of three very different men: Francis Barber... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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In the Falling Snow
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $16.00
From one of our most admired fiction writers: the searing story of breakdown and recovery in the life of one man and of a society moving from one idea of itself to another.
Keith—born in England in the early 1960s to immigrant West Indian parents but primarily raised by his white stepmother—is... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $16.00
From one of our most admired fiction writers: the searing story of breakdown and recovery in the life of one man and of a society moving from one idea of itself to another.
Keith—born in England in the early 1960s to immigrant West Indian parents but primarily raised by his white stepmother—is... Read more >
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In the Falling Snow
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $25.95
From one of our most admired fiction writers: the searing story of breakdown and recovery in the life of one man and of a society moving from one idea of itself to another.
Keith—born in England in the early 1960s to immigrant West Indian parents but primarily raised by his white stepmother—is... Read more >
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $25.95
From one of our most admired fiction writers: the searing story of breakdown and recovery in the life of one man and of a society moving from one idea of itself to another.
Keith—born in England in the early 1960s to immigrant West Indian parents but primarily raised by his white stepmother—is... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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