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Cambridge

Caryl Phillips

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English
Vintage
01 July 2008
Dramatic and challenging novel about freedom and prejudice by the winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize.

Cambridge is a powerful and haunting novel set in that uneasy time between the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of the slaves. It is the story of Emily Cartwright, a young woman sent from England to visit her father's West Indian plantation, and Cambridge, a plantation slave, educated and Christianised by his first master in England and now struggling to maintain his dignity.
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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   170g
ISBN:   9780099520566
ISBN 10:   0099520567
Pages:   192
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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 three works of non-fiction and seven novels. Crossing the River was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize and he 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.

Reviews for Cambridge

A striking novel that pushes you dizzily into another time and place... Reading it is like being in the middle of a vibrant dream * Sunday Times * Phillips points up the hypocrisy and humiliation of a society at breaking point; revealing it with subtlety, humour and humanity * Sunday Telegraph * Caryl Phillips has proved himself to be among the best and most productive writers of his generation...with Cambridge he takes a firm step towards joining the company of the literary giants of our time * New York Times * This powerful, seductively readable book, set in a 19th century slave plantation, finally puts the sickening realities of the slave trade firmly on the map * Guardian * Phillips is a linguistic and cultural virtuoso * The Times *


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