Caryl Phillips

Caryl Phillips: Plays One (eBook, ePUB)

Strange Fruit; Where There is Darkness; The Shelter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Three plays by playwright and novelist Caryl Phillips, written in the 1980s and collected here for the first time.

Strange Fruit is a powerful study of a black family caught between two cultures; Where There is Darkness examines the plight of a West Indian man, Albert Williams, on the eve of his return to the Caribbean after an absence of twenty-five years; The Shelter alternates between the late eighteenth-century and 1950s London, exploring the relationship between a black man and a white woman.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786827913
• Artikelnr.: 58300995

Autorenporträt

Caryl Phillips is the award-winning author of eleven novels, four stage plays and five volumes of non-fiction, in addition to numerous radio plays, scripts and essays. His latest fiction, A View of the Empire at Sunset (2018), focuses on the life of Dominican-born writer Jean Rhys. Identity, migration and history are among the main themes of his writing, which also stands out for its formal daring.