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Cambridge
by PHILLIPS, Caryl
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0679405321
- ISBN 13
- 9780679405320
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1991. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0679405321 . Stated first American edition. Caryl Phillips describes the realities of life on a Caribbean sugar plantation during the era of slavery in his novel. The story is begun through a diary by Emily Cartwright, a white Englishwoman. Cambridge, a slave, closes the narrative as the lives of the two become closely intertwined. --- In brown paper-covered boards backed in navy cloth, with cover and spine titling in gilt. Jacket features wrap-around color reproduction of Frans Jansz's Brazilian Landscape. --- A very nice copy: clean, bright, and newish but with remainder mark rubberstamped to lower textblock edge. Bright unclipped jacket also nice but with minor rubbing.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall ; (8), 184 pages .
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84360
- Title
- Cambridge
- Author
- PHILLIPS, Caryl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679405321
- ISBN 13
- 9780679405320
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- 0679405321
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