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The Atlantic Sound
by Caryl Phillips
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375401105
- ISBN 13
- 9780375401107
- Seller
-
Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Very clean book. Pictures on request
Synopsis
Liverpool, England; Accra, Ghana; Charleston, South Carolina. These were the points of the triangle forming the major route of the transatlantic slave trade. And these are the cities that acclaimed author Caryl Phillips explores--physically, historically, psychologically--in this wide-ranging meditation on the legacy of slavery and the impact of the African diaspora on the life of a place and its people.In a brilliantly layered narrative, Phillips combines his own observations with the stories of figures from the past. The experiences of an African trader in nineteenth-century Liverpool are contrasted with Phillips's experience of the city, where, as a Carib-bean black, he is scorned by the city's "native" blacks. His interactions with American Pan-Africanists coming "home" to Ghana (and with those Ghanaians for whom leaving seems the best hope) are paired with the account of a British-trained African minister in eighteenth-century Accra who turned a blind eye to the slave trade flourishing around him. The story of a white judge who disrupted "the natural order" in Charleston by integrating the Democratic primary in 1947 is set against Phillips's search for remnants of the "pest houses" where slaves were "seasoned" be-fore being sold.Phillips weaves these narrative threads together with acute insight and a novelist's grasp of time, place and character. The result is a provocative and unexpected book, at once historically illuminating and profoundly affecting.From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rose Marie Oakes dba Old Village Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 129137a
- Title
- The Atlantic Sound
- Author
- Caryl Phillips
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375401105
- ISBN 13
- 9780375401107
- Publisher
- Alfred Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Size
- 8vo
- LCCN
- 00034917
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About the Seller
Rose Marie Oakes dba Old Village Books
Biblio member since 2005
Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina
About Rose Marie Oakes dba Old Village Books
I have been selling books for over 20years at Antique and Collectible shows around the South. I have also been selling on the internet for the past 20 years. I try to describe my books accurately and to keep my listings up to date. I am happy to answer any questions that you may have.
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