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A Distant Shore (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400034505)
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Caryl Phillips
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xDorothy 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 one. Intimate and panoramic, measured and shattering, A Distant Shore charts the oceanic expanses that separate people from their homes, their hearts, and their selves.
Author: Caryl Phillips
ISBN-10: 1400034507
ISBN-13: 9781400034505
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 03/08/2005
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.46w x 0.61d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.1
Point Value: 17
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 104011 / Distant Shore
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 04/10/2005 pg. 36
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 one. Intimate and panoramic, measured and shattering, A Distant Shore charts the oceanic expanses that separate people from their homes, their hearts, and their selves.
Author: Caryl Phillips
ISBN-10: 1400034507
ISBN-13: 9781400034505
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 03/08/2005
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.46w x 0.61d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.1
Point Value: 17
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 104011 / Distant Shore
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 04/10/2005 pg. 36
By Caryl Phillips
xCaryl 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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