The life of Cambridge, an educated slave in the British West Indies, is intertwined with that of Emily Cartwright, an English heiress visiting her father's sugar estate, in a dramatic portrayal of the moral hypocrisy of the plantation system.
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nd's most widely acclaimed young novelists adopts two eerily convincing narrative voices and juxtaposes their stories to devastating effect in this mesmerizing portrait of slavery. Cambridge is a devoutly Christian slave in the West Indies whose sense of justice is both profound and self-destructive, while Emily is a morally-blind, genteel Englishwoman.
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Hardback. Zustand: Fair. It was probably because I was so often taken away from Cambridge when I was young that I loved it as much as I did . . . So begins this novel-from-life by the bestselling author of Girl, Interrupted, an exploration of memory and nostalgia set in the 1950s among the academics and artists of Cambridge, Massachusetts. London, Florence, Athens: Susanna, the precocious narrator of Cambridge, would rather be home than in any of these places. Uprooted from the streets around Harvard Square, she feels lost and excluded in all the locations to which her father's career takes the family. She comes home with relief-but soon enough wonders if outsiderness may be her permanent condition. Written with a sharp eye for the pretensions-and charms-of the intellectual classes, Cambridge captures the mores of an era now past, the ordinary lives of extraordinary people in a singular part of America, and the delights, fears, and longings of childhood. Artikel-Nr. 00088422880
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Hardback. Zustand: Good. It was probably because I was so often taken away from Cambridge when I was young that I loved it as much as I did . . . So begins this novel-from-life by the bestselling author of Girl, Interrupted, an exploration of memory and nostalgia set in the 1950s among the academics and artists of Cambridge, Massachusetts. London, Florence, Athens: Susanna, the precocious narrator of Cambridge, would rather be home than in any of these places. Uprooted from the streets around Harvard Square, she feels lost and excluded in all the locations to which her father's career takes the family. She comes home with relief-but soon enough wonders if outsiderness may be her permanent condition. Written with a sharp eye for the pretensions-and charms-of the intellectual classes, Cambridge captures the mores of an era now past, the ordinary lives of extraordinary people in a singular part of America, and the delights, fears, and longings of childhood. Artikel-Nr. 00110276010
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Anbieter: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover with DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelving wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows light edge wear with sunning to the spine.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day! Artikel-Nr. 182605110026
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Anbieter: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (1992). First American edition. Third printing. Hardbound. Fine/Fine. ENGLISH DEPARTMENT stamped on FEP. Artikel-Nr. 84359
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hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. Stated first American edition. SIgned by the author on the title page. DJ in mylar sleeve. A copy in fine condition. Artikel-Nr. mon0003330240
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hardcover. Zustand: very good(-). Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. 8vo, 1/2 blue cloth, d.w., cloth lightly soiled. New York: Knopf, (1991). A novel set on a West Indian sugar plantation. Artikel-Nr. 269619
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Anbieter: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, USA
Zustand: Very Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. Signed by author on bookplate laid in book. First American edition. In protective mylar cover. Artikel-Nr. SA10I-00232
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