{"product_id":"crossing-the-river-9780679757948","title":"Crossing the River","description":"From the acclaimed author of \u003cb\u003eCambridge\u003c\/b\u003e comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness, which forces a father to sell his three children into slavery. Employing a brilliant range of voices and narrative techniques, Caryl Phillips folows these exiles across the river that separates continents and centuries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhillips's characters include a freed slave who journeys to Liberia as a missionary in the 1830s; a pioneer woman seeking refuge from the white man's justice on the Colorado frontier; and an African-American G.I. who falls in love with a white Englishwoman during World War II. Together these voices make up a \"many-tongued chorus\" of common memory--and one of the most stunning works of fiction ever to address the lives of black people severed from their homeland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679757948\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.01h x 5.18w x 0.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/1998 pg. 979\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/19\/1994\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Caryl Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43897095684277,"sku":"9780679757948","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e4786ea2-5cf0-40f5-8385-2e2d8f799f26.jpg?v=1712633227","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/crossing-the-river-9780679757948","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}