Cambridge a novel by Caryl Phillips

By:

Phillips, Caryl [aut]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York Vintage Books 1993Edition: 1. Vintage International edDescription: 183 p 21 cmContent type:

Text

Media type:

ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen

Carrier type:

Band

ISBN:

0679736891

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

823.914
823/.914

LOC classification:

PR9275.S263

Online resources:

Publisher description

Summary: ".... A prim and increasingly apprehensive Englishwoman observing the peculiarities-and barely veiled brutality-of a sugar plantation in the nineteenth-century West Indies. A devout black slave whose profoundly Christian sense of justice is about to cost him his life......As a suspenseful and inescapably damming portrait of the schizophrenia of slavery, Caryl Phillip's book belongs in the company of Beloved and The Confessions of Nat Turner." From the book jacket

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
single unit book	HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – Basement – Library Hallway	R (Reference collection)	R:PR9275.S263 P4727 1993 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		2023-5866

".... A prim and increasingly apprehensive Englishwoman observing the peculiarities-and barely veiled brutality-of a sugar plantation in the nineteenth-century West Indies. A devout black slave whose profoundly Christian sense of justice is about to cost him his life......As a suspenseful and inescapably damming portrait of the schizophrenia of slavery, Caryl Phillip's book belongs in the company of Beloved and The Confessions of Nat Turner." From the book jacket

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Cambridge a novel by Caryl Phillips