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Foreigners
Author: Caryl Phillips
Narrator: Robert Ian Mackenzie, Peter Jay Fernandez, Dion Graham, John Keating, Robin Miles, Charlotte Parry, Simon Prebble
Unabridged: 8 hr 3 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
Published: 10/03/2008
Category: Fiction - African American
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.