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Author: Austin Clarke
Publisher: Dundurn Group Ltd
Imprint: Dundurn Group Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.653kg
ISBN: 9781459730342
ISBN 10: 1459730348
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 15 October 2015
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
A magnificent account of a writer s life. - Globe and Mail
[I]t is difficult to think of another Canadian writer so equipped through experience and sensibility and graciousness, it must be said to trace the attempts, stuttering at times, that Canada has made from the 1960s onward to accommodate diversity. - Globe and Mail
[a] brilliant free-range style of writing, which is enfolded in discussions of ideas, interaction with other writers and fragments of [Clarke's] own memories and reflections of 'membering. - Literary Review of Canada
[I]t is difficult to think of another Canadian writer so equipped through experience and sensibility -- and graciousness, it must be said -- to trace the attempts, stuttering at times, that Canada has made from the 1960s onward to accommodate diversity. - Globe and Mail
A magnificent account of a writer's life.--Globe and Mail A magnificent account of a writer s life.--Globe and Mail A magnificent account of a writer s life. - Globe and Mail Clarke s voice is rich, engaging, and to use the author s own word singular. - Quill & Quire [W]hat is most evident throughout Membering is Clarke s voice, which is rich, engaging, and to use the author s own word singular. - Quill & Quire [a] brilliant free-range style of writing, which is enfolded in discussions of ideas, interaction with other writers and fragments of [Clarke's] own memories and reflections of 'membering. - Literary Review of Canada A magnificent account of a writer's life.--Globe and Mail Clarke's voice ... is rich, engaging, and -- to use the author's own word -- singular. - Quill & Quire [W]hat is most evident throughout 'Membering is Clarke's voice, which is rich, engaging, and - to use the author's own word - singular. - Quill & Quire A magnificent account of a writer's life. - Globe and Mail [I]t is difficult to think of another Canadian writer so equipped through experience and sensibility -- and graciousness, it must be said -- to trace the attempts, stuttering at times, that Canada has made from the 1960s onward to accommodate diversity. - Globe and Mail
Author Information
Austin Clarke is one of Canada’s foremost authors, whose work includes ten novels, six short-story collections, three memoirs, and two collections of poetry. His novel The Polished Hoe won the 2002 Giller Prize. Clarke is a member of the Order of Canada, holds four honorary doctorates, and has been awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the W.O. Mitchell Prize, the Casa de las Américas Prize, and the Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Excellence in Writing, among others. In his fifty-year career he has worked as a journalist, a professor, and a cultural attaché in Washington D.C. He lives in Toronto.
