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Higher Ground
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Series: Vintage International
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ISBN10: 0679763767
ISBN13: 9780679763765
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Oct 31 1995
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.23 Depth: 8.03
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780679763765
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Oct 31 1995
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.23 Depth: 8.03
Language: English
A searing novel about slavery and its legacy that tells multiple stories, set generations and continents apart but unified by their ambitious exploration of themes of race, power, captivity, and abuse--from a master ventriloquist [who] giv[es] immediacy and voice to an impressive range of vivid characters about whom the reader cares deeply (San Francisco Chronicle).
In a slave garrison in Africa, a native collaborator betrays his people and humiliates himself in order to win the favor of white men. From an American prison cell in the 1960s, a black convict tries to impart his vision of race and justice to his indifferent family. And in a dreary city in postwar England, a displaced Jewish refugee watches her youth and sanity slip down the drain of history. Combined and in the skilled hands of Phillips, these narratives take on a devastating power.
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