Foreigners (Paperback)

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.
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.

General

Imprint:	Vintage Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Vintage International
Release date:	November 2008
First published:	November 2008
Authors:	Caryl Phillips
Dimensions:	201 x 132 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-4000-7984-1
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	1-4000-7984-5
Barcode:	9781400079841

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