Summary
‘Taut, fascinating and controversial. The Atlantic Sound may prove to be as influential today as Roots was a generation ago’ - Sunday Times’Taut, fascinating and controversial. The Atlantic Sound may prove to be as influential today as Roots was a generation ago’ Sunday TimesIn The Atlantic Sound Caryl Phillips explores the complex notion of what constitutes ‘home’. Seen through the historical prism of the Atlantic Slave trade, he undertakes a personal quest to come to terms with the dislocat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099429968 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099429969 |
| Author: | Caryl Phillips |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2001 |
| Weight: | 170g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
Like Jonathan Raban and the early V. S. Naipaul, Phillips can do truly live reportage. The honesty and detail forces you to experience what the writer is going through … Whether he is writing fiction or non-fiction, he seems to hone every thought and word before he allows it to leave his head. That stillness beneath his words is what makes Caryl Phillips such an exceptional writer and this book so compelling – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown * Observer *So compelling and so original…The result is history and sociology at its most heartfelt * Booklist *A powerful re-examination of the salve-trade and its terrible legacy * Observer *A glowing, indicting, dignified and dissenting work… The Atlantic Sound is crucial, unputdownable * Scotsman *‘A splendidly honest and vividly detailed venture into some of history’s darkest corners-by a novelist who is also a superb reporter’ * Kirkus Reviews *
About The Author
Caryl Phillips
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 twelve works of fiction and non-fiction. Crossing the River was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize and Caryl Phillips 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. A Distant Shore won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 2004 and Dancing in the Dark was shortlisted in 2006.
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