Caryl Phillips is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including Dancing in the Dark, Crossing the River, Color Me English, and The Lost Child. His novel A Distant Shore won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and his other awards include a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and Britain's oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in New York.
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Caryl Phillips, who pits himself against any kind of received wisdom” (London Review of Books), gives us a hypnotic, heartbreaking novel lit by the bright and changing lights of 1960s London. In London's swinging sixties, Victor Johnson, a young imm... SEE MORE