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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
March 2015
On Sale: March 10, 2015
272 pages
ISBN: 0374191379
EAN: 9780374191375
Kindle: B00MSZECIQ
Hardcover / e-Book
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Caryl Phillips's The Lost Child is a sweeping story
of orphans and outcasts, haunted by the past and fighting to
liberate themselves from it. At its center is Monica
Johnson--cut off from her parents after falling in love with
a foreigner--and her bitter struggle to raise her sons in
the shadow of the wild moors of the north of England.
Phillips intertwines her modern narrative with the childhood
of one of literature's most enigmatic lost boys, as he
deftly conjures young Heathcliff, the anti-hero of
Wuthering Heights, and his ragged existence
before Mr. Earnshaw brought him home to his family.
The Lost Child is a multifaceted, deeply
original response to Emily Bronte's masterpiece,
Wuthering Heights. A critically acclaimed and
sublimely talented storyteller, Caryl Phillips is "in a
league with Toni Morrison and V. S. Naipaul"
(Booklist) and "his novels have a way of growing on
you, staying with you long after you've closed the book."
(The New York Times Book Review) A true literary
feat, The Lost Child recovers the mysteries of the
past to illuminate the predicaments of the present, getting
at the heart of alienation, exile, and family by
transforming a classic into a profound story that is
singularly its own.
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