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Caryl Phillips
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Length
8 hours 3 minutes
Language
English
Narrators
Peter Jay Fernandez, Dion Graham, Simon Prebble, Robin Miles, John Keating, Robert Ian Mackenzie & Charlotte Parry
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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.
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Narrators:
Peter Jay Fernandez, Dion Graham, Simon Prebble, Robin Miles, John Keating, Robert Ian Mackenzie & Charlotte Parry
ISBN:
9781436133463
Length:
8 hours 3 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Recorded Books, Inc.
Publication date:
October 3, 2008
Edition:
Unabridged
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