Crossing the River
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Crossing the River

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 techniques, Caryl Phillips folows these exiles across the river that separates continents and centuries.

Phillips's characters include a freed slave who journeys to Liberia as a missionary in the 1830s; a pioneer woman seeking refuge from the white man's justice on the Colorado frontier; and an African-American G.I. who falls in love with a white Englishwoman during World War II. Together these voices make up a "many-tongued chorus" of common memory€"and one of the most stunning works of fiction ever to address the lives of black people severed from their homeland.

  • TitleCrossing the River
  • BrandVintage
  • ManufacturerKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • BindingPaperback
  • ProductGroupBook
  • ItemPartNumber0679757945_used
  • ColorWhite
  • ReleaseDate1995-01-15T00:00:01Z
  • UnitCount1
  • EANs9780679757948