{"product_id":"foreigners-9781400079841","title":"Foreigners","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[A] searching meditation on outsiders in England. . . . \u003ci\u003eForeigners\u003c\/i\u003e is written, like all Phillips' books, in a style of even, sorrowful precision that enrages as it informs.\" --Pico Iyer, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/11\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400079841\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.24w x 0.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/14\/2008 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Caryl Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44870694928565,"sku":"9781400079841","price":19.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_16da0438-4b7b-4f31-94b9-e0c530ebdc29.jpg?v=1733241056","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/foreigners-9781400079841","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}