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A distant shore a novel

Phillips, Caryl. (Author).

Summary: From the acclaimed author of "The Nature of Blood" and "The Atlantic Sound" comes a masterful new novel set in contemporary England about an African man and an English woman whose hidden lives are revealed in their fragile, fateful connection.

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  • ISBN: 9780307424327 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0307424324 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: electronic resource
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    1 online resource (218 p.)
  • Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2005.
Subject: Africans -- England -- Fiction
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England -- Fiction
Genre: Electronic books.

Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, West Indies. Brought up in England, he has written for television, radio, theater, and film. He is the author of three books of nonfiction, The European Tribe, The Atlantic Sound, and A New World Order, and six novels, The Final Passage, A State of Independence, Higher Ground, Cambridge, Crossing the River, and The Nature of Blood, and has edited two anthologies, Extravagant Strangers and The Right Set. His 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. Phillips lives in New York.

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