| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 03 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Griot audio.
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| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Narrated by a full cast. |
| Summary |
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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Barber, Frank, 1745-1801 -- Fiction.
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Turpin, Randolph -- Fiction.
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Oluwale, David, 1930 or 1931-1969 -- Fiction.
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Blacks -- England -- Fiction.
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Race relations -- Fiction.
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Blacks -- Race identity -- Fiction.
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England -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Graham, Dion.
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Keating, John.
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Mackenzie, Robert Ian.
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Fernandez, Peter Jay.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781456103569 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1456103563 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13539028 |
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