Caryl Phillips
A State of Independence
Vintage, 1995. First printing of first Vintage International Edition. 0679759301 158 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 8.25", shows shelfwear, with small closed tear and crease to upper outside corner of front cover, with blank sticker over bar code on rear cover, and "used book" stamped on top/bottom edge of text block. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright.
"One of the brightest practitioners of the multicultural English novel trains his unblinking eye on his Caribbean home -- and on one country's transition from colonialism to a dubious state of independence."