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Higher Ground

Higher Ground

by Caryl Phillips (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

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    Paperback 1999

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Synopsis

In Higher Ground, Caryl Phillips presents three characters separated by time and distance but united by the profound sympathy he has for their humanity. In the first story, a young West African is oppressed by the shadow of slavery; in the second an African-American fights to survive solitary confinement without sacrificing his integrity; in the third a Polish refugee struggles to ward off the increasing isolation of a life in exile.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07 Sep 2006
ISBN 10: 0099498251
ISBN 13: 9780099498254
Book Overview: A novel in three parts, bound together with passion and sorrow, Higher Ground forms a haunting triptych of the dispossessed and the abandoned.

Media Reviews
The second story in particular is probably the best thing Phillips has ever done Financial Times Remarkable... every page of Phillips writing is convincing, a frightful part of our collective consciousness Washington Post Higher Ground is about the destruction of lives, about damage done in one generation being passed on to another. Phillips' book has an urgency and intensity which demands that you read more... to take account of what the voices he has imagined have to say London Review of Books Caryl Phillips has proved himself among the best and most productive writers of his generation The Times The understated relation between the three parts is haunting and the whole is a work of total conviction Sunday Times
Author Bio
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 twelve 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 the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, as well as being named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 1992 and one of the Best of Young British Writers 1993. A Distant Shore won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2004 and Dancing in the Dark was shortlisted in 2006.