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A Distant Shore
by Phillips, Caryl
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1400041090
- ISBN 13
- 9781400041091
- Seller
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About This Item
Knopf, 2003. Book. Fine. Hardcover. US First Edition. Pages unmarked. Dust jacket glossy. Binding square & firm. Clean & bright..
Synopsis
Caryl 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 books of nonfiction, The European Tribe , The Atlantic Sound , and A New World Order , and six novels, The Final Passage , A State of Independence , Higher Ground , Cambridge, Crossing the River , and The Nature of Blood , and has edited two anthologies, Extravagant Strangers and The Right Set . 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.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84511
- Title
- A Distant Shore
- Author
- Phillips, Caryl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine Dust Jacket
- Edition
- US First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1400041090
- ISBN 13
- 9781400041091
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- Fiction
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