Book #24139

A State of Independence

Caryl Phillips
Book #24139 A State of Independence. Caryl Phillips.
A State of Independence
A State of Independence
A State of Independence

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First US Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986.

A Fine copy of this first American edition/Printing in alike dust-jacket. Signed by author Caryl Phillips directly on the title page.

Phillips' novel tells the story of two sisters, one white and one black, who are torn apart by the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The white sister, Isabel, moves to New York City to study art and falls in love with a white man. The black sister, Renee, stays in the South and becomes a civil rights activist. The two sisters are never able to reconcile their differences, and their lives ultimately fall apart.; 8vo; 158, [2] pages; Signed by Author.

Price: $50.00