A Distant Shore
Caryl Phillips$17.00
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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 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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 03/08/2005
ISBN: 9781400034505
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.46w x 0.61d
Review Citations: New York Times 04/10/2005 pg. 36
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 104011 / Distant Shore
Reading Level: 6.1 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 17
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 03/08/2005
ISBN: 9781400034505
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.46w x 0.61d
Review Citations: New York Times 04/10/2005 pg. 36
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 104011 / Distant Shore
Reading Level: 6.1 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 17