Questa è la pagina dedicata a Caryl Phillips.
In questa pagina troverai 5 prodotti, tra cui “Dancing In The Dark”.
Dancing In The Dark
‘The funniest man I ever saw, and the saddest man I ever knew.’ This is how W.C. Fields described Bert Williams, the highest-paid entertainer in America in his heyday and someone who counted the King of England and Buster Keaton among his fans. Born in the Bahamas, he moved to California with his family. Too poor to attend Stanford University, he took to life on the stage with his friend George Walker. Together they played lumber camps and mining towns until they eventually made the agonising decision to ‘play the coon’. Off-stage, Williams was a tall, light-skinned man with marked poise and dignity; on-stage he now became a shuffling, inept ‘nigger’ who wore blackface make-up. As the new century dawned they were headlining on Broadway. But the mask was beginning to overwhelm Williams and he sank into bouts of melancholia and heavy drinking, unable to escape the blackface his public demanded.
Caryl Phillips: Plays One: Strange Fruit; Where There is Darkness; The Shelter (Oberon Modern Playwrights) (English Edition)
A View of the Empire at Sunset: A Novel (English Edition)
The Lost Child
Crossing the River
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Caryl Phillips’ ambitious and powerful novel spans two hundred and fifty years of the African diaspora. It tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and continents: one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one a pioneer on a wagon trail to the American West later that century, and one a GI posted to a Yorkshire village in the Second World War. ‘Epic and frequently astonishing’ The Times ‘Its resonance continues to deepen’ New York Times
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