Phillips, Caryl
Phillips, Caryl ( 1958 – ),novelist and playwright, born in St Kitts, West Indies. He came to England with his family as a baby and was educated in Leeds, Birmingham, and at Oxford University. Early plays include Strange Fruit ( 1980 ) and The Shelter ( 1983 ). His first novel, The Final Passage ( 1985 ), described the experiences in Britain of the post-war immigrant generation: later works include A State of Independence ( 1986 ), in which the protagonist returns to his West Indian home, with a severe sense of dislocation, and Higher Ground ( 1989 ). Cambridge ( 1991 ) is a tour de force of historical fiction set in the West Indies just after the abolition of the slave trade: much of the novel is narrated by English visitor Emily Cartwright, who is disturbed and shocked by the brutal world she enters, but we also hear other voices, including that of Cambridge himself, an educated...
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