Cambridge
by Phillips, Caryl
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679405321
- ISBN 13
- 9780679405320
- Seller
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Arvada, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
First American edition.
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
- Old Algonquin Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1082
- Title
- Cambridge
- Author
- Phillips, Caryl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679405321
- ISBN 13
- 9780679405320
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Black Historical West Indies Caribbean;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction & Literature;
Terms of Sale
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- First Edition
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