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Distant Shore
Caryl Phillips
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Description for Distant Shore
Paperback. The English village is a place where people come to lick their wounds. Dorothy has walked away from a bad 30-year marriage and is trying to rebuild a life. It's not immediately clear why her neighbour, Solomon, is living nearby, but gradually they establish a form of comfort in each other's presence that alleviates the isolation they both feel. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236.
The English village is a place where people come to lick their wounds. Dorothy has walked away from a bad thirty-year marriage, an affair gone sour and a dangerous obsession. Between her visits to the doctor and the music lessons she gives to bored teenagers, she is trying to rebuild a life.
It's not immediately clear why her neighbour, Solomon, is living in the village, but his African origin suggests a complex history that is at odds with his dull routine of washing the car and making short trips to the supermarket. Though all he has in common ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099428886
SKU
V9780099428886
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
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 fifteen works of fiction and non-fiction. Crossing the River was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize and Caryl Phillips has won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and ... Read more
Reviews for Distant Shore
A Distant Shore is a distillation of everything that makes Phillips's work so impressive: lucid, deceptively simple prose combined with huge ideas and complex emotions... One of those rare novels which successfully examines vast themes through the prism of small lives
Time Out
Suspenseful, atmospheric, adventurous
Independent
Phillips's clever novel about a society under increasing pressure ... Read more
Time Out
Suspenseful, atmospheric, adventurous
Independent
Phillips's clever novel about a society under increasing pressure ... Read more