\u201cHe has forcefully demonstrated that distance can sharpen a writer\u2019s focus and deepen perceptions. \u2014The Globe and Mail<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cUncommonly talented, Clarke sees deeply, and transmits his visions and perceptions so skillfully that reading him is an adventure.\u201d \u2014Publisher\u2019s Weekly<\/i><\/p>\n

Austin Clarke was a professor of literature and taught at Yale, Brandeis, Williams, Duke, and the Universities of Texas and Indiana. He assisted in setting up a Black Studies program at Yale in 1968, after which he became the cultural attach\u00e9 of the Embassy of Barbados in Washington, D.C. Culminating with the international success of The Polished Hoe<\/i>, which won the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and the Trillium Prize. Austin Clarke’s work since 1964 includes eleven novels (three with Exile Editions), six short-story collections (two with Exile Editions), and four memoirs. He lived in Toronto until his death in June 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Austin Clarke is one of the truly significant teller of tales of our time, and in this remarkable collection of eight stories he deftly explores, through his characters, human nature and sensibilities, among them a sweet longing for youth and an anxiety-stricken rage at old age; an immigrant\u2019s recurring memories for a placid, lost home, unbalanced by his lust for a new high speed motorcar life; and an intellectual\u2019s sense of empowerment by black history even as he watches what little he knows about such history engulf him. These are intense and private lives made public by the force of their individual voices, voices that may be rambunctious and fractious but that are, nonetheless, elegant in their intent and humor and their acceptance that is never acquiescence. The volume concludes with a prose portrait of Austin Clarke, by acclaimed author Barry Callaghan.<\/p>\n

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