“[Phillips is] a master ventriloquist, giving immediacy and voice to an impressive range of vivid characters.” —San Francisco Chronicle
CAMBRIDGE
A prim and increasingly apprehensive Englishwoman observing the peculiarities of a sugar plantation in the nineteenth-century West Indies. A devout black slave whose profoundly Christian sense of justice is about to cost him his life. In Cambridge, Phillips creates a suspenseful and inescapably damning portrait of the schizophrenia of slavery.
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CROSSING THE RIVER
This novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, begins in Africa in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness, which forces a father to sell his three children into slavery. Phillips follows these exiles— including a freed slave journeying to Liberia, 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 woman during World War II—across the river that separates continents and centuries, giving us one of the most stunning works of fiction ever to address the lives of black people severed from their homeland.
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HIGHER GROUND
In this searing novel about slavery and its legacy, Phillips tells multiple stories, set generations and continents apart but unified by their ambitious exploration of themes of race, power, captivity, and abuse. These narratives take on a devastating power, confirming his reputation as a writer who understands the stranglehold the past exercises on the present.
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The Final Passage, 0–679-75931-X
A State of Independence, 0–679-75930–1
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