Crossing the River

by Caryl Phillips (Author)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $4.24

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $14.51

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  Hardcover
  1993

  $4.74

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  $12.48

  Caryl Phillips' ambitious and powerful novel spans two hundred and fifty years of the African diaspora. It tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and continents: one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one a pioneer on a wagon trail to the American West later that century, and one a GI posted to a Yorkshire village in the Second World War. Crossing the River won the James Tait Black Memorial Award in 1994, and was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize.