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Contributor(s): Phillips, Caryl (Author)

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ISBN: 1400079845     ISBN-13: 9781400079841
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
OUR PRICE: $21.85  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2008
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Annotation: 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.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | African American - General
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2009290582
Series: Vintage International
Physical Information: 0.57" H x 5.24" W x 8" L (0.41 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
Features: Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 12/14/2008 pg. 24
 
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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.

 
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