(Ebook) Crossing The River by Caryl Phillips ISBN 9780099498261, 009949826X, B0047DVIGQ

(Ebook) Crossing The River by Caryl Phillips ISBN 9780099498261, 009949826X, B0047DVIGQ

Caryl Phillips’ intense historical fiction addresses slavery’s shattering of the lives of Black people through the story of one father’s lost family."A brilliantly coherent version of two and a half centuries of the African diaspora. . . . Richly counterpointed. . . . Its resonance continues to deepen."  -  The New York Times Book ReviewIn desperate financial straits, a father sells his three children into slavery. Crossing The River 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. "...Phillips's latest novel (Cambridge, 1992; Final Passage, 1990, etc.), like a work of sacred music, combines a ``many-tongued chorus'' limning the pervasive legacy of slavery with an eloquent celebration of survival—of arrival ``on the far bank of the river... Beautifully measured writing that powerfully evokes the far-reaching realities of the African diaspora. A master work."  -  Kirkus ReviewsCaryl Phillips is the author of several acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction. His novel A Distant Shore won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 2004. Other awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN Open Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Phillips, who was named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 1992 and one of the Granta Best of Young British Writers 1993, has also written for television, radio, theatre and film.