{"product_id":"membering-austin-clarke-9781459730342","title":"'membering","description":"\u003ci\u003e2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature -- Longlisted\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e2016 RBC Taylor Prize -- Longlisted\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe unforgettable memoir of Giller Prize-winning author and poet Austin Clarke, called \"Canada's first multicultural writer.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAustin Clarke is a distinguished and celebrated novelist and short-story writer. His works often centre around the immigrant experience, of which he writes with humour and compassion, happiness and sorrow. In \u003ci\u003e'Membering\u003c\/i\u003e, Clarke shares his own experiences growing up in Barbados and moving to Toronto to attend university in 1955 before becoming a journalist. With vivid realism he describes Harlem of the '60s, meeting and interviewing Malcolm X and writers Chinua Achebe and LeRoi Jones. Clarke went on to become a pioneering instructor of Afro-American Literature at Yale University and inspired a new generation of Afro-American writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClarke has been called Canada's first multicultural writer. Here he eschews a traditional chronological order of events and takes the reader on a lyrical tour of his extraordinary life, interspersed with thought-provoking meditations on politics and race. Telling things as he 'members them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Austin Clarke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1459730348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781459730342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tap Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2015 pg. 29","brand":"Austin Clarke","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46372375527679,"sku":"9781459730342","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ab5b2bb6-7116-4c50-a893-dfdf46036efd.jpg?v=1732725774","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/membering-austin-clarke-9781459730342","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}