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The Atlantic Sound

The Atlantic Sound

2000 ·
·3.62·127 Ratings ·288 Pages
“ We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ” ― E. M. Forster
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    2001·
    ·3.67·70 Ratings
    An Anchor Books OriginalSeventy-four distinguished writers tell personal tales of books loved and lost–great books overlooked, under-read, out of print, stolen, scorned, extinct, or otherwise out of commission.Compiled by the editors of Brick: A Literar
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    1995·
    ·3.39·125 Ratings
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    Dorothy is a retired schoolteacher who has recently moved to a housing estate in a small village. Solomon is a night-watchman, an immigrant from an unnamed country in Africa. Each is desperate for love. And yet each harbors secrets that may make attaining
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    1995·
    ·3.75·577 Ratings
    From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness, which forces a father to sell his three chi
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    2006·
    ·3.55·121 Ratings
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    1997·
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    1993·
    ·3.25·441 Ratings
    A prim and increasingly apprehensive Englishwoman observing the peculiarities—and barely veiled brutality—of a sugar plantation in the nineteenth-century West Indies. A devout black slave whose profoundly Christian sense of justice is about to cost hi
  • The Lost Child

    2015·
    ·3.23·309 Ratings
    Caryl Phillips reimagines Emily Bronte's melodramatic "Wuthering Heights", weaving the past and the present into a modern story of exile and difference.Caryl Phillips's The Lost Child is a sweeping story of orphans and outcasts, haunted by the past and fi
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