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Product Description: 2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature ― Longlisted 2016 RBC Taylor Prize ― Longlisted The unforgettable memoir of Giller Prize–winning author and poet Austin Clarke, called “Canada’s first multicultural writer.” Austin Clarke is a distinguished and celebrated novelist and short-story writer...read more

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9781459730342, titled "'membering" | Tap Books, September 1, 2015, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: 2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature ― Longlisted 2016 RBC Taylor Prize ― Longlisted The unforgettable memoir of Giller Prize–winning author and poet Austin Clarke, called “Canada’s first multicultural writer.

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Product Description: Two black men: the poet, an elder and veteran of last century?s civil rights movement; and a nameless youth, swaggering and beltless, seduced by guns-and-gangs and expensive cars, and perpetually targeted by police. They are brothers by the colour of their skin, neighbours in the same ?crib,? yet separated by a lifetime of experience...read more

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9781771830201 | Guernica Editions, April 1, 2015, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Two black men: the poet, an elder and veteran of last century?

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Product Description: In this collection, award-winning author Austin Clarke has caught, in his characters, a sweet longing for youth and an anxiety-stricken rage at old age; an immigrant’s longing for a placid, lost home and his lust for a new high-speed motorcar life; and an intellectual’s sense of empowerment by black history even as he watches what little he knows about such history engulf him...read more

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9781550963595 | Exile Editions, November 1, 2013, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In this collection, award-winning author Austin Clarke has caught, in his characters, a sweet longing for youth and an anxiety-stricken rage at old age; an immigrant’s longing for a placid, lost home and his lust for a new high-speed motorcar life; and an intellectual’s sense of empowerment by black history even as he watches what little he knows about such history engulf him.

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Product Description: Three Canadian soldiers awaiting deployment to the war in Afghanistan beat a homeless man to death on the steps of their armoury after a night of heavy drinking. The poet, whose downtown Toronto home overlooks the armoury and surrounding park, describes the crime, its perpetrators, the victim, and a cast of homeless witnesses that includes the woman, a prostitute, who first alerts police...read more

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9781550716931 | Guernica Editions, April 30, 2013, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Three Canadian soldiers awaiting deployment to the war in Afghanistan beat a homeless man to death on the steps of their armoury after a night of heavy drinking.

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Product Description: From the winner of the 2002 Giller Prize comes Austin Clarke's much anticipated new novel, More. At the news of her son's involvement in gang crime, Idora Morrison collapses in her rented basement apartment. For four days and nights, she retreats into a vortex of memory, pain, and disappointment that unravels a riveting dissection of her life as a black immigrant to Toronto...read more

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9780061772405 | 1 edition (Amistad Pr, September 15, 2009), cover price $25.99 | About this edition: From Austin Clarke, the critically acclaimed author of The Polished Hoe—winner of the Giller Prize—comes More, a powerful new novel of survival in a cold and alienating world.

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9780887624667 | Thomas Allen & Son, September 26, 2009, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: From the winner of the 2002 Giller Prize comes Austin Clarke's much anticipated new novel, More.

Miscellaneous:

9780061986857 | Harpercollins, September 15, 2009, cover price $11.99

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Product Description: Long out of print, these collected poems reflect the career of one of the best Irish poets of the 20th century, as important as Patrick Kavanagh, Thomas Kinsella, or Seamus Heaney. His work is distinguished by the influence of Gaelic poetry and was important in drawing the public's attention to the Irish modernists...read more
By Austin Clarke, R. Dardis Clarke (editor) and Christopher Ricks (introduced by)

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9781857548259 | Carcanet Pr, February 28, 2009, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: Long out of print, these collected poems reflect the career of one of the best Irish poets of the 20th century, as important as Patrick Kavanagh, Thomas Kinsella, or Seamus Heaney.

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Product Description: Winner of the 2009 Toronto Book Award From the winner of the 2002 Giller Prize comes Austin Clarke's much anticipated new novel, More. At the news of her son's involvement in gang crime, Idora Morrison collapses in her rented basement apartment...read more

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9780887623530 | Thomas Allen & Son, September 30, 2008, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Winner of the 2009 Toronto Book Award From the winner of the 2002 Giller Prize comes Austin Clarke's much anticipated new novel, More.

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Product Description: Poignantly capturing the sorrow and torment of the dispossessed, this collection of stories focuses on the contemporary experiences of urban dwellers longing for a place to call home. Private lives and intimate pains are made public, and the rawness of the moment is redeemed by the elegance of Clarke's prose and the innate sympathy of his eye...read more

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9781550961065 | Exile Editions, March 30, 2009, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Poignantly capturing the sorrow and torment of the dispossessed, this collection of stories focuses on the contemporary experiences of urban dwellers longing for a place to call home.

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Product Description: A compelling collection that explores the lives of Afro-Caribbean immigrants living in Canada, these eight short stories delve into the experiences of displaced persons living in contemporary society—all with a richness of language and rhythm that is authentically urban...read more

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9781550960921 | Reprint edition (Exile Editions, July 30, 2008), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A compelling collection that explores the lives of Afro-Caribbean immigrants living in Canada, these eight short stories delve into the experiences of displaced persons living in contemporary society—all with a richness of language and rhythm that is authentically urban.
9781550960747 | Exile Editions, March 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A compelling collection that explores the lives of Afro-Caribbean immigrants living in Canada, these eight short stories delve into the experiences of displaced persons living in contemporary society—all with a richness of language and rhythm that is authentically urban.

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Product Description: "This is a stunning collection. Mesmerizing. Carew's foreshadowing is so deft, so subtle, we begin to ache before we should. We swat swamp mosquitoes as we sit around the smoke-fire with granite-faced Doorne and his sons, sensing peril...read more
By Jan R. Carew and Austin Clarke (introduced by)

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9781932511505, titled "The Guyanese Wanderer: Stories" | Sarabande Books, July 1, 2007, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: "This is a stunning collection.

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By Austin Clarke and Mary Shine Thompson (contributor)

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9780861402083 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 23, 2006, cover price $65.00

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When the highly respected Mary Mathilda of the West Indies's Bimshire island confesses to killing a powerful sugar plantation owner, whom she has served for more than thirty years and who is the father of her grown son, she sets off a devastating all-night vigil that reveals the tragic legacy of colonialism and slavery. Reprint.

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9780060555658 | Amistad Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: When Mary Mathilda of the West Indies' Birnshire Island confesses to killing a powerful sugar plantation owner, whom she has served for more than thirty years and who is the father of her grown son, she sets off a devastating all-night vigil.

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9780060557621 | Reprint edition (Amistad Pr, June 1, 2004), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: When the highly respected Mary Mathilda of the West Indies's Bimshire island confesses to killing a powerful sugar plantation owner, whom she has served for more than thirty years and who is the father of her grown son, she sets off a devastating all-night vigil that reveals the tragic legacy of colonialism and slavery.

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A Carribean memoir that is part cookbook and part family history blends lyrical, evocative writing with engaging descriptions of how to cook the dishes of Barbados. (view table of contents)

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9781565845800 | New Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A Carribean memoir that is part cookbook and part family history offers engaging descriptions of how to cook the dishes of Barbados.

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9780771021282 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, June 1, 1999, cover price $22.99

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9780676971606 | Vintage, September 1, 1998, cover price $19.00

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Product Description: Book by Clarke, Austin

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9780771021275 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, June 1, 1997, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Book by Clarke, Austin

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9780916390501 | Wake Forest Univ Pr, June 1, 1976, cover price $20.00

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9780140186499 | Penguin USA, March 1, 1993, cover price $11.95

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9780575039001 | Victor Gollancz, April 1, 1988, cover price $19.95

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A collection of short stories portrays the experiences of members of the West Indian community in Toronto

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9780140085600 | Penguin USA, May 1, 1987, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A collection of short stories portrays the experiences of members of the West Indian community in Toronto

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9780771021459 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, December 1, 1985, cover price $12.95

Gathers poetic works by Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh, Denis Devlin, Richard Murphy, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, and Seamus Heaney
By Austin Clarke (editor) and Maurice Harmon (editor)

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9780316346887 | Little Brown & Co, September 1, 1981, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Gathers poetic works by Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh, Denis Devlin, Richard Murphy, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, and Seamus Heaney

Hardcover:

9780851053493 | Humanities Pr, June 1, 1980, cover price $26.50

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