Cambridge

by Caryl Phillips

Overview

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, genteel Englishwoman.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679736899
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/02/1993
Series:	Vintage International
Edition description:	1st Vintage International ed
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.43(d)

About the Author

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.