Foreigners

Caryl Phillips

earliest edition we have, 2007 Harvill Secker, 2007 261 pages

A powerful and affecting new book from Caryl Phillips: a hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact that tells the stories of three black men whose lives speak resoundingly to the place and role of the foreigner in English society," "Francis Barber, "given" to the great eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson, more companion than servant, afforded an unusual depth of freedom that, after Johnson's death, haste...

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Foreigners edition · 2008 · Vintage International · 235 pages · 9781400079841
Foreigners hardcover · 2007 · Knopf · 256 pages · 9781400043972
Foreigners edition · 2007 · Harvill Secker · 261 pages · 9780436205972

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