Foreigners: Three English Lives - Hardcover

Phillips, Caryl

3.5

124 ratings by Goodreads

9780436205972: Foreigners: Three English Lives

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0436205971 ISBN 13: 9780436205972

Publisher: Harvill Secker, 2007

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Foreigners: Three English Lives

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Review:

'A brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction and fact'
-- Observer

'An important and sobering book, highly relevant today'.
-- Daily Mail

'Phillips once again demonstrates why he remains one of Britain's pre-eminent writers...' -- The Guardian

`An immensely talented writer' -- Irish Times

`As ever with Phillips, questions of race, identity and belonging are brilliantly examined.' -- The Bookseller

`Caryl Phillips has found his niche, as a master of historical `re-imaginings'.' -- The Spectator

`Foreigners is immaculately written...a book that must be, and can only be, re-read.'
-- Sunday Herald

`Phillips has long been one of Britain's most astute interrogators of the ramifications of this black presence in Britain'.
-- TLS

`Phillips resurrects their thwarted hopes in this subtle meditation on identity and belonging'
-- Irish Times

`With great empathy, and through a collage of voices, Phillips has created three distinct portraits. All are superbly crafted.' -- Daily Mail

Book Description:

From 'one of the literary giants of our times' (New York Times), a brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact that tells the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak resoundingly to the place and role of the foreigner in English society.

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