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Crossing the River
Caryl Phillips
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Description for Crossing the River
Paperback. Tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and continents: one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one a pioneer on a wagon trail to the American West later that century, and one a GI posted to a Yorkshire village in the Second World War. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
Caryl Phillips’ ambitious and powerful novel spans two hundred and fifty years of the African diaspora. It tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and continents: one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one a pioneer on a wagon trail to the American West later that century, and one a GI posted to a Yorkshire village in the Second World War.
‘Epic and frequently astonishing’
The Times
‘Its resonance continues to deepen’
New York Times
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099498261
SKU
V9780099498261
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Ref
99-99
About Caryl Phillips
Caryl Phillips was born in St Kitts and now lives in London and New York. He has written for television, radio, theatre and cinema and is the author of twelve works of fiction and non-fiction. Crossing the River was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Award. Caryl Phillips has also won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as being named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 1992 and one of the Best of Young British Writers 1993. A Distant Shore won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2004 and Dancing in the Dark was shortlisted in 2006.
Reviews for Crossing the River
A compassionate, forceful and profoundly moving revelation
Scotland on Sunday
[T]here are gems of impassioned writing quilted within this ambitious cross-cultural novel of loss and reconciliation
Sunday Times
Epic and frequently astonishing
The Times
Crossing the River is dense with event and ingeniously structured. It requires concentration and is worth it
Independent
An ambitious exploration of oppression, loss and reconciliation that employs a collage of styles and ranges across continents and centuries
Nicci Gerrard
Observer
[Phillips is] a master ventriloquist, giving immediacy and voice to an impressive range of vivid characters about whom the reader cares deeply... Wonderfully individual
San Francisco Chronicle
Caryl Phillips' exploration of the relations betweeen black and white is nuanced, humane and sypathetic. And his deep awareness of the historical process is combined with an exceptionally intelligent prose style - clear, unencumbered and compassionate
New Statesman and Society
Scotland on Sunday
[T]here are gems of impassioned writing quilted within this ambitious cross-cultural novel of loss and reconciliation
Sunday Times
Epic and frequently astonishing
The Times
Crossing the River is dense with event and ingeniously structured. It requires concentration and is worth it
Independent
An ambitious exploration of oppression, loss and reconciliation that employs a collage of styles and ranges across continents and centuries
Nicci Gerrard
Observer
[Phillips is] a master ventriloquist, giving immediacy and voice to an impressive range of vivid characters about whom the reader cares deeply... Wonderfully individual
San Francisco Chronicle
Caryl Phillips' exploration of the relations betweeen black and white is nuanced, humane and sypathetic. And his deep awareness of the historical process is combined with an exceptionally intelligent prose style - clear, unencumbered and compassionate
New Statesman and Society