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Includes the plays 11 Josephine House, The Death of a Black Man and Lonely Cowboy Jamaican-born Fagon came to England at the age of 18, working first on the railways, and then enlisting in the army, where he became a boxing champion. He soon became a leading figure in black theatre. His characters, with explosive consequences, struggle to live in a hostile British culture as exiles from their spiritual home. This collection spans the whole of Fagon's remarkable writing career. He died in 1986 at the tragically early age of 49.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Plays, playscripts

• Full title: Fagon: Plays
• Subtitle: 11 Josephine House; the Death of a Black Man; Lonely Cowboy
• Author: Alfred Fagon
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214
• EAN: 9781840021370
• ISBN: 1840021373
• ID: 04847517
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 280 g
• Dimensions: 209 × 133 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. December 1999

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