{"product_id":"crossing-the-river-9780679757948","title":"Crossing the River","description":"From the acclaimed author of \u003cb\u003eCambridge\u003c\/b\u003e comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness, which forces a father to sell his three children into slavery. Employing a brilliant range of voices and narrative techniques, Caryl Phillips folows these exiles across the river that separates continents and centuries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhillips's characters include a freed slave who journeys to Liberia as a missionary in the 1830s; a pioneer woman seeking refuge from the white man's justice on the Colorado frontier; and an African-American G.I. who falls in love with a white Englishwoman during World War II. Together these voices make up a \"many-tongued chorus\" of common memory--and one of the most stunning works of fiction ever to address the lives of black people severed from their homeland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCaryl 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 previous books of nonfiction, \u003cb\u003eThe European Tribe\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Atlantic Sound\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eA New World Order\u003c\/b\u003e, and six novels, \u003cb\u003eThe Final Passage\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eA State of Independence\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eHigher Ground\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eCambridge\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eCrossing the River\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eThe Nature of Blood\u003c\/b\u003e, and has edited two anthologies, \u003cb\u003eExtravagant Strangers\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Right Set\u003c\/b\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514300174610,"sku":"9780679757948","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0ede33ea-d8d8-4626-9a80-6e752a192ad3.jpg?v=1730978609","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/crossing-the-river-9780679757948","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}