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Higher Ground

Caryl Phillips. Penguin Books, $7.95 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-14-011806-3

``Phillips calls these three novellas a novel, and they are so allied in feeling, though not in style or subject matter, and so superbly written that it would be carping not to go along,'' noted PW . Each story captures an apocalyptic moment in the life of a protagonist being tried in his or her innermost self by history's cruelties. (Oct.)