Foreigners, Caryl Phillips
Foreigners, Caryl Phillips
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Foreigners

Author: Caryl Phillips

Narrator: Dion Graham, Robert Ian Mackenzie, Charlotte Parry, Simon Prebble, Robin Miles, John Keating, Peter Jay Fernandez

Unabridged: 8 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/03/2008


Synopsis

Award-winning author Caryl Phillips shares the factbased story of three foreigners-black men attempting to fit into a white world. Francis Barber worked for Dr. Samuel Johnson, and after the good doctor's death he struggles for respect. Randy Turpin beats Sugar Ray Robinson in 1951, but soon falls into debt and despair. David Oluwale is a Nigerian immigrant who is brutally beaten by Leeds police officers in 1969.

About Caryl Phillips

Caryl Phillips is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including Dancing in the Dark, Crossing the River, Color Me English, and The Lost Child. His novel A Distant Shore won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and his other awards include a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and Britain’s oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Magdalena on April 22, 2024

*book read for uni* First and second story meh… third one top Some quotes ^In fact, there was nobody to talk to about how you really felt about things, so you just kept your mouth shut and pretend to behave and hoped that the drugs wouldn’t make you any more mad.^ ^he could have been safe and invisible......more

Goodreads review by Renée on April 17, 2023

Pretty good and really bad at the same time? The last novella was so good in its core but the writing gave me whiplash......more

Goodreads review by Kris on July 03, 2020

Interesting but patchy... The first story, about Samuel Johnson and Francis Barber, was well-written, but a story I already knew. The last story, about the murder of David Oluwale by the Leeds Metropolitan Police, was something I knew just a little about, but the scattershot nature of the prose was......more

Goodreads review by Alan on November 21, 2018

For what it is, Foreigners: Three English Lives is a good book. It tells the story of the lives of three black Englishmen and their alienation, suffering, and eventual demises. Phillips' research is quite impressive and you will definitely learn a lot about black English history and the tribulations......more

Goodreads review by Lauren on August 12, 2024

A complex story that shares the lives of three black men. It’s said to be a book of fiction but sadly these stories run too close to the truth. Listening to this audio book was somewhat of a challenge for me, due to varied voices of narration that made the story both fascinating and intriguing. Exce......more