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’Membering

By: Austin Clarke

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By: Austin Clarke

Giller Prize winner Austin Clarke’s memoirs provide insightful cultural observations by one of today’s most influential black writers.

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Dundurn

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1459730356

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9781459730359

The Austin Clarke Library

'Membering / The Polished Hoe / Choosing His Coffin

By: Austin Clarke

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The Austin Clarke Library

'Membering / The Polished Hoe / Choosing His Coffin

By: Austin Clarke

Gathered together are three extraordinary books by renowned storyteller and memoirist Austin Clarke. ’Membering, Clarke’s breathtaking memoir, spans over fifty years of his life as a writer, chronicling his coming to Canada in the fifties, formative experiences with Malcolm X, Chinua Achebe, and LeRoi Jones, and bursting with cultural insights and poignant memories from a narrative master. In The Polished Hoe, winner of the Giller Prize and the 2003 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, when an elderly Bimshire village woman calls the police to confess to a murder, the result is a shattering all-night vigil that brings together elements of the African diaspora in one epic sweep. Set on the post-colonial West Indian island of Bimshire in 1952, The Polished Hoe unravels over the course of 24 hours but spans the lifetime of one woman and the collective experience of a society informed by slavery. Choosing His Coffin is a selection of Clarke’s finest work from more than forty years of storytelling, drawing on his Caribbean roots and his years in Canada. These stories range in theme from growing up in West Indian society and what it means to be black in both the United States and Canada to surviving as an immigrant in a predominantly Anglo-Saxon culture.

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Dundurn

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1459734408

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9781459734401

Reviews and Essays of Austin Clarke

By: Austin Clarke

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Reviews and Essays of Austin Clarke

By: Austin Clarke

Austin Clarke is widely regarded as one of 20th-century Ireland's most important poets. In this selection of nearly fifty essays and reviews written over Clarke's long career, he demonstrates that he is an astute and provocative literary critic as well. Having grown up in Dublin when the excitement of the Irish Literary Revival was still running high, Clarke knew many of the principal figures of that movement personally, and his readings of Yeats, Joyce, Synge, O'Casey, Lady Gregory, George Moore, and others enjoy the advantages of an insider's point of view. A selection of Clarke's writings on Yeats is followed by his writings on other Irish writers and the Irish Literary Revival, and on Modern English and American literature. Included as an appendix is an exhaustive list of Clarke's literary criticism published in periodicals.

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422

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Rowman & Littlefield

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ISBN 10

0861403371

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9780861403370

A Novel

By: Austin Clarke

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A Novel

By: Austin Clarke

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. Certain to become a classic in contemporary world literature, More carries readers into the lonely life of an immigrant domestic—abandoned years before by a faithless husband, her life devastated by her son’s involvement in gang culture and crime—and her remarkable journey from tragedy back to the light. An unforgettable portrait of the black immigrant experience, it is a novel to be read and remembered.

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310

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Harper Collins

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0061986852

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9780061986857

When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks

By: Austin Clarke

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When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks

By: Austin Clarke

Now available after over four decades, the first collection of short fiction from bestselling author and Barbadian-born Canadian luminary Austin Clarke — winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and the Trillium Book Award for his novel The Polished Hoe — is a vital, lyrical, and provocative exploration of the Black immigrant experience in Canada. Originally issued in 1971, Austin Clarke’s first published collection of eleven remarkable stories showcases his groundbreaking approach to chronicling the Caribbean diaspora experience in Canada. Characters move through the mire of working life, of establishing a home for themselves, of reconciling with what and who they left behind — all the while contending with a place in which their bone-chilling reception is both social and atmospheric. In lyrical, often racy, and wholly unforgettable prose, Clarke portrays a set of provocative, scintillating portraits of the psychological realities faced by people of colour in a society so often lauded for its geniality and openness.

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160

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House of Anansi

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1487008430

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9781487008437

Georgia Intestate Records

By: Jeannette Holland Austin

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Georgia Intestate Records

By: Jeannette Holland Austin

This work contains abstracts of the intestate records of the fifty-seven Georgia counties formed before the 1832 Land Lottery, plus those for Fulton (1853), White (1857), Dawson (1857), and Webster (1853) counties. Besides the name of the deceased and the dates of the various court papers, information in the abstracts includes the names of the administrators, sureties and guardians (often relatives of the deceased), names of the surviving spouse and children, the names of orphan children and heirs, and, where a will is recorded, the names of the legatees!

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443

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806311460

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9780806311463

A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors

Vol. I

By: S. Austin Allibone

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A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors

Vol. I

By: S. Austin Allibone

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.

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3375120982

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9783375120986

One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families

By: John Osborne Austin

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One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families

By: John Osborne Austin

This work is an exhaustive study of 160 families. For each family covered, a skeletal genealogy is given, showing births, marriages, and deaths in successive generations of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. This is then followed by a narrative detailing the known facts about each person and family according to existing records. The narratives commence with the first member of the family to come to New England, identifying his place of origin and occupation, the date and place of his arrival in New England, and his residence--all information that was accumulated from the author's extensive research in wills, inventories, deeds, land records, and church records. The narratives then turn to the children of the original settler, treating them in like manner, and to their children, and so on until the genealogy is fully developed.

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318

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806307633

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9780806307633

The Georgia Frontier

By: Jeannette Holland Austin

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The Georgia Frontier

By: Jeannette Holland Austin

Vol. 1 : Colonial families to the Revolutionary War period.-- Vol. 2 : Revolutionary War families to the mid-1800s. -- Vol. 3 : Descendants of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina families.

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588

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806352744

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9780806352749

The Georgians

Genealogies of Pioneer Settlers

By: Jeannette Holland Austin

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The Georgians

Genealogies of Pioneer Settlers

By: Jeannette Holland Austin

This is a collection of 283 genealogies which I have compiled over a period of twenty years as a professional genealogist. ... While I have dealt with some of Oglethorpe's settlers, the vast majority of the genealogies included in this collection deal with Georgians who descend from settlers from other states."--Note to the Reader.

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496

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806310812

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9780806310817

The Bigger Light

The Toronto Trilogy

By: Austin Clarke

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The Bigger Light

The Toronto Trilogy

By: Austin Clarke

This is Austin Clarke's acclaimed trilogy about a group of West Indian domestics, their friends, lovers, spouses, and employers living in Toronto. In rich, exuberant language, Clarke illuminates a world inhabited by earthy, garrulous, but terribly isolated people, all living, working and struggling with the alien, White, Canadian culture. Dominated by warm, superbly drawn characters and capped by vibrant, unerring dialogue, The Toronto Trilogy is a devastating and brilliant commentary on the quest for success in North America, and it established Austin Clarke as a major Canadian writer.

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289

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Vintage Canada

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0307364267

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9780307364265

The Official History Of The New Zealand Rifle Brigade [Illustrated Edition]

By: Lieut.-Col. W. S. Austin

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The Official History Of The New Zealand Rifle Brigade [Illustrated Edition]

By: Lieut.-Col. W. S. Austin

Over 40 Illustrations of the officers, men and battles they engaged in. The Rifle Brigade has a long and distinguished history in the British Army as a corps of elite troops with a fighting pedigree stretching back to the times of Wellington, the Peninsular War and Waterloo. During the First World War the huge number of volunteers from New Zealand overstripped the ability of the administration to provide more than one brigade of infantry in 1915. However in 1916 a second brigade was formed and was designated as the New Zealand Rifle Brigade, marrying the traditions of the British Rifle Brigade for the highest standards of soldiery and the New Zealand traditions of courage, native skill and toughness. The New Zealand Rifle Brigade fought with distinction across the British zones of the battlefields of France and Flanders. As their official historian recounts with his vivid narrative from the bloody but successful debut at the battle of Flers-Courcelette, the battle of Messines, Passchendaele and the dark days of the German offensives in 1918, the “Dinks” as they were known covered themselves in glory. They would produce two Victoria cross winners from their ranks and many of their men would return to their native islands with other high honours for gallantry and bravery. However, the losses of these brave men were prodigious and the names of the fallen are inscribed in full detail in an appendix at the end of the book.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1782892478

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9781782892472

The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island

Comprising Three Generations of Settlers who Came Before 1690, with Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation

By: John Osborne Austin

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The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island

Comprising Three Generations of Settlers who Came Before 1690, with Many Families Carried to the Fourth Generation

By: John Osborne Austin

This legendary work consists of alphabetically arranged genealogical tables of approximately 500 Rhode Island families, representing thousands of descendants of pre--1690 settlers, all carried to the third generation, and some--about 100 families-- carried to the fourth.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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080630006X

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9780806300061

The Origin of Waves

By: Austin Clarke

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The Origin of Waves

By: Austin Clarke

Austin Clarke’s luminous novel, written in vivid, hypnotic prose, reveals the dislocations of place and the nature of memory and the past. Two elderly Barbadian men, childhood friends who haven’t seen each other in fifty years, collide in a snowstorm on a Toronto street. In the warmth of a nearby bar, through the afternoon and into the night, they relate stories, exchange opinions, and share memories of a past in Barbados when, as children, neither could conceive any other place existed for them. As these two men confess to each other their innermost truths, their exploits and their love affairs, one tells the haunting story of a young Chinese woman, the other of the real reason for his visit to Toronto. Infused with pathos and humour, and with an affecting nostalgia for the idea of home, The Origin of Waves is a stunning and original novel by one of the country’s most gifted writers.

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211

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McClelland & Stewart

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1551996065

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9781551996066

Storm of Fortune

The Toronto Trilogy

By: Austin Clarke

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Storm of Fortune

The Toronto Trilogy

By: Austin Clarke

This is the second book in Austin Clarke’s groundbreaking Toronto Trilogy about the lives of black people in Canada. In Storm of Fortune, Clarke brings us into a circle of West Indian domestics—their friends, lovers, spouses, and employers—living in Toronto in the late 1950s. In lush, invigorating prose, Clarke illuminates the world of Bernice Leach—a world inhabited by earthy, garrulous, but terribly isolated people, all living, working, and struggling within an alien, white, Canadian culture. He brilliantly articulates the unsettled attitudes of his characters towards themselves, their community, and their fellow immigrants, exploring questions of status and social mobility. In turn, he unites these themes into a devastating commentary on the quest for success in North America. Dominated by warm, superbly drawn characters and pulsing with the nation language of Clarke’s characters’ speech, Storm of Fortune is a window into one of the most dynamic periods of Canadian history—one that has brought so much to bear on our present.

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Vintage Canada

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0307364259

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9780307364258

Book's by Austin Clarke

’Membering

’Membering

The Austin Clarke Library

The Austin Clarke Library

Reviews and Essays of Austin Clarke

Reviews and Essays of Austin Clarke

More

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When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks

When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks

Georgia Intestate Records

Georgia Intestate Records

A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors

A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors

One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families

One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families

The Georgia Frontier

The Georgia Frontier

The Georgians

The Georgians

The Bigger Light

The Bigger Light

The Official History Of The New Zealand Rifle Brigade [Illustrated Edition]

The Official History Of The New Zealand Rifle Brigade [Illustrated Edition]

The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island

The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island

The Origin of Waves

The Origin of Waves

Storm of Fortune

Storm of Fortune

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