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A View of the Empire at Sunset
ISBN: 9781784709013 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,10 |
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Extravagant Strangers
ISBN: 9780679781547 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Shakespeare called Othello -an extravagant and wheeling stranger/Of here and every where.- In this exciting anthology, Caryl Phillips has collected writings by thirty-nine extravagant strangers: British writers who were born outside of Britain and see it with clear and critical eyes. These eloquent and incisive voices prove that English literature, far from being pure or homogenous, has in fact been shaped and influenced by outsiders for over two hundred years. Shakespeare called Othello -an extravagant and wheeling stranger/Of here and every where.- In this exciting anthology, Caryl Phillips has collecte... |
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66,74 |
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Foreigners
ISBN: 9781400079841 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From an acclaimed, award-winning novelist comes this brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact: the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak resoundingly to the problem of race in British society.
With his characteristic grace and forceful prose, Phillips describes the lives of three very different men: Francis Barber, given to the 18th-century writer Samuel Johnson, whose friendship with Johnson led to his wretched demise; Randolph Turpin, a boxing champion who ended his life in debt and decrepitude; and David Oluwale, a Nigerian stowaway who arrived in Leeds... From an acclaimed, award-winning novelist comes this brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact: the stories of three black men whose...
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90,56 |
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A New World Order: Essays
ISBN: 9780375714030 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Africa of his ancestry, the Caribbean of his birth, the Britain of his upbringing, and the United States where he now lives are the focal points of award-winning writer Caryl Phillips' profound inquiry into evolving notions of home, identity, and belonging in an increasingly international society.
At once deeply reflective and coolly prescient, A New World Order" charts the psychological frontiers of our ever-changing world. Through personal and literary encounters, Phillips probes the meaning of cultural dislocation, measuring the distinguishing features of our identities-geographic,... The Africa of his ancestry, the Caribbean of his birth, the Britain of his upbringing, and the United States where he now lives are the focal points o...
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78,75 |
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Another Man in the Street
ISBN: 9780374613556 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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106,31 |
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Crossing the River
ISBN: 9780099498261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and continents: one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one a pioneer on a wagon trail to the American West later that century, and one a GI posted to a Yorkshire village in the Second World War.
Tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and continents: one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one ...
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52,03 |
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A State of Independence
ISBN: 9780679759300 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Phillips examines the transitions of a Caribbean nation from colonialism to a dubious state of independence through the experiences of Bertram Francis, a young man who leaves St. Kitts at the age of thirteen to study law on a coveted scholarship in England. Twenty years later he returns, chastened by failure, hoping to succeed at "something that doesn't make me dependent upon the white man." The rejections Francis faced in England are nothing to those that greet him in his homeland, where the resentments of the people he abandoned are exceeded only by the cynicism of the old friends who have...
Phillips examines the transitions of a Caribbean nation from colonialism to a dubious state of independence through the experiences of Bertram Francis...
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59,06 |
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Another Man in the Street
ISBN: 9781526679949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2026 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,10 |
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The Lost Child
ISBN: 9781250094650 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award A gripping and inventive reimagining of Wuthering Heights, by award-winning author Caryl Phillips In the tradition of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea and J. M. Coetzee's Foe, Caryl Phillips revisits Emily Bronte's masterpiece Wuthering Heights as a lyrical tale of orphans and outcasts, absence and hope. A sweeping novel spanning generations, The Lost Child tells the story of young Heathcliff's life before Mr. Earnshaw brought him home to his family; the Bronte sisters and their wayward... Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award A gripping and inventive reimagining of Wuthering Heights, by award-winning author... |
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86,63 |
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Dancing in the Dark
ISBN: 9781400079834 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this searing novel, Caryl Phillips reimagines the life of the first black entertainer in the U.S. to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune.After years of struggling for success on the stage, Bert Williams (1874 1922), the child of recent immigrants from the Bahamas, made the radical decision to don blackface makeup and play the coon. Behind this mask he became a Broadway headliner as influential a comedian as Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and W. C. Fields, who called him the funniest man I ever saw, and the saddest man I ever knew. It is this dichotomy at Williams core that Phillips...
In this searing novel, Caryl Phillips reimagines the life of the first black entertainer in the U.S. to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune.A...
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90,56 |
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The Lost Child
ISBN: 9781529111569 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Discover this heartrending story of orphans, outcasts and the grip of the past from award-winning novelist Caryl Phillips - inspired by Wuthering Heights. It is the 1960s.
Discover this heartrending story of orphans, outcasts and the grip of the past from award-winning novelist Caryl Phillips - inspired by Wuthering Heig...
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51,10 |
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The European Tribe
ISBN: 9780375707049 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this richly descriptive and haunting narrative, Caryl Phillips chronicles a journey through modern-day Europe, his quest guided by a moral compass rather than a map. Seeking personal definition within the parameters of growing up black in Europe, he discovers that the natural loneliness and confusion inherent in long jorneys collides with the bigotry of the "European Tribe"-a global community of whites caught up in an unyielding, Eurocentric history. Phillips deftly illustrates the scenes and characters he encounters, from Casablanca and Costa del Sol to Venice, Amsterdam, Oslo, and...
In this richly descriptive and haunting narrative, Caryl Phillips chronicles a journey through modern-day Europe, his quest guided by a moral compass ...
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63,00 |
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A Distant Shore
ISBN: 9780099428886 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The English village is a place where people come to lick their wounds. Dorothy has walked away from a bad 30-year marriage and is trying to rebuild a life. It's not immediately clear why her neighbour, Solomon, is living nearby, but gradually they establish a form of comfort in each other's presence that alleviates the isolation they both feel.
The English village is a place where people come to lick their wounds. Dorothy has walked away from a bad 30-year marriage and is trying to rebuild a ...
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88,48 |
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Crossing the River
ISBN: 9780679757948 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness, which forces a father to sell his three children into slavery. Employing a brilliant range of voices and narrative techniques, Caryl Phillips folows these exiles across the river that separates continents and centuries.
Phillips's characters include a freed slave who journeys to Liberia as a missionary in the 1830s; a pioneer woman seeking refuge from the white man's... From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Afr...
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74,81 |
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Another Man in the Street
ISBN: 9781250397706 / Angielski / Miękka / 2026 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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70,88 |
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Dancing In The Dark
ISBN: 9780099488873 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Born in the Bahamas, Bert Williams moved to California with his family. Too poor to attend Stanford University, he took to life on the stage with his friend George Walker. Together they played lumber camps and mining towns until they eventually made the agonising decision to 'play the coon'. This novel is about the life of one remarkable man.
Born in the Bahamas, Bert Williams moved to California with his family. Too poor to attend Stanford University, he took to life on the stage with his ...
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88,48 |
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The Nature of Blood
ISBN: 9780099520573 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A young Jewish woman growing up in Germany in the middle of the twentieth century and an African general hired by the Doge to command his armies in sixteenth century Venice are bound by personal crisis and momentous social conflict. What emerges is Europe's age-old obsession with race, with sameness and difference, with blood.
A young Jewish woman growing up in Germany in the middle of the twentieth century and an African general hired by the Doge to command his armies in si...
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88,48 |
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Higher Ground
ISBN: 9780679763765 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This searing novel about slavery and its legacy brings the same stylistic virtuosity and tightly focused intelligence of Phillips's other novels. Higher Ground tells multiple stories, set generations and continents apart but unified by their ambitious exploration of themes of race, power, captivity, and abuse. In a slave garrison in Africa, a native collaborator betrays his people and humiliates himself in order to win the favor of white men. From an American prison cell in the 1960s, a black convict tries to impart his vision of race and justice to his indifferent family. And in...
This searing novel about slavery and its legacy brings the same stylistic virtuosity and tightly focused intelligence of Phillips's other novels. H...
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59,06 |
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A View of the Empire at Sunset
ISBN: 9780374538385 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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94,46 |
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A Distant Shore
ISBN: 9781400034505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Dorothy is a retired schoolteacher who has recently moved to a housing estate in a small village. Solomon is a night-watchman, an immigrant from an unnamed country in Africa. Each is desperate for love. And yet each harbors secrets that may make attaining it impossible.
With breathtaking assurance and compassion, Caryl Phillips retraces the paths that lead Dorothy and Solomon to their meeting point: her failed marriage and ruinous obsession with a younger man, the horrors he witnessed as a soldier in his disintegrating native land, and the cruelty he encounters as a stranger in his new... Dorothy is a retired schoolteacher who has recently moved to a housing estate in a small village. Solomon is a night-watchman, an immigrant from an un...
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78,75 |
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