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Foreigners

Foreigners

Phillips, Caryl

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1400079845
ISBN13: 9781400079841
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Nov 11 2008
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.24 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
From an acclaimed, award-winning novelist comes this brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact: the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak resoundingly to the problem of race in British society.

[A] searching meditation on outsiders in England. . . . Foreigners is written, like all Phillips' books, in a style of even, sorrowful precision that enrages as it informs. --Pico Iyer, Time

With his characteristic grace and forceful prose, Phillips describes the lives of three very different men: Francis Barber, given to the 18th-century writer Samuel Johnson, whose friendship with Johnson led to his wretched demise; Randolph Turpin, a boxing champion who ended his life in debt and decrepitude; and David Oluwale, a Nigerian stowaway who arrived in Leeds in 1949 and whose death at the hands of police twenty years later was a wake up call for the entire nation. As Phillips weaves together these three stories, he illuminates the complexities of race relations and social constraints with devastating results.

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