THE QUESTION
by Clarke, Austin
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto, Canada: McClelland & Stewart Limited, 1999. Paperback original. 243 pp. Black illustrated card covers, not price-clipped. Light wear along the edges. VG. First Edition.
Synopsis
Austin Clarke was born in Barbados, and came to Canada to attend university in 1955. He has had a varied and distinguished career as a broadcaster, civil-rights leader, diplomat, and professor. He has published ten novels, including the Toronto Trilogy ( The Meeting Point , Storm of Fortune , and The Bigger Light ), The Origin of Waves , winner of The Rogers Communications Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, The Question , a finalist for the Governor General’s Award, and, most recently, The Polished Hoe , winner of The Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book. He is also the author of six short-story collections, including When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks , When Women Rule , There Are No Elders , and Choosing His Coffin: The Best Stories of Austin Clarke ; and three memoirs, Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack , winner of the 1980 Casa de las Americas Literary Prize of Cuba, A Passage Back Home , and Pig Tails ’n Breadfruit: Rituals of Slave Food . Austin Clarke: A Biography by Stella Algoo-Baksh was published in 1994 and The Austin Clarke Reader , selected writings, in 1996. He is the recipient of numerous honours, including the 1999 W.O. Mitchell Literary Prize, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award, and the Order of Canada. Austin Clarke lives in Toronto.
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Details
- Bookseller
- J. Wyatt Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017176
- Title
- THE QUESTION
- Author
- Clarke, Austin
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart Limited
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, Canada
- Date Published
- 1999
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Ottawa, Ontario
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