Cambridge
by Phillips, Caryl (SIGNED)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0679405321
- ISBN 13
- 9780679405320
- Seller
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Montpelier, Vermont, United States
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Synopsis
Dramatic and challenging novel about freedom and prejudice by one of the most important authors of his generationCambridge 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 Cambridge, 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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- Bookseller
- Bear Pond Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ABE-440469478
- Title
- Cambridge
- Author
- Phillips, Caryl (SIGNED)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679405321
- ISBN 13
- 9780679405320
- Publisher
- New York: Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- CARIBBEAN ENGLAND WEST INDIES PLANTATION SLAVERY FICTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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