The Atlantic Sound - Rilegato

"A lyrical survey that...elicit[s] and illuminat[es] the patterns and prejudices of race."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Impressive, poignant.... A travel book crafted with the touch of a skilled novelist."
--Time Out New York

"A trenchant...book that sounds the depth of slavery’s legacy."
--San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle
From the Trade Paperback edition.

Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, West Indies; his family emigrated to England that same year, and he was brought up in Leeds and educated at Oxford. Phillips has written numerous scripts for film, theater, radio and television. He is the author of one previous book of nonfiction, The European Tribe, and six novels, including Cambridge, Crossing the River and The Nature of Blood. He has received numerous awards--the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize among them. He lives in New York City.

Caryl Phillips's The Final Passage, A State of Independence, The European Tribe, Higher Ground, Cambridge, Crossing the River and The Nature of Blood are available in Vintage paperback.