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Books by Austin Clarke
  | | The Polished Hoe(Reprint) A Novel by Austin Clarke Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2004 by Amistad ISBN-13: 978-0-06-055762-1, ISBN: 0-06-055762-1 "Paperback. Pub. Date: 2004 Pages: 480 in Publisher: Amistad When Mary-Mathilda one of the most respected women of the island of Bimshire (also known as Barbados) calls the police to at allexpect a to a crime. the result is a shattering all-night vigil that ings together elements of the island's African past and the tragic legacy of colonialism in one epic sweep. Set in the West Indies in the period following World War II. The Polished H ..." |
 | | They Never Told Me And Other Stories (Paperback) by Austin Clarke Paperback, 210 Pages, Published 2013 by Exile Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-55096-359-5, ISBN: 1-55096-359-7 "In this collection, award-winning author Austin Clarke has caught, in his characters, a sweet longing for youth and an anxiety-stricken rage at old age; an immigrant s longing for a placid, lost home and his lust for a new high-speed motorcar life; and an intellectual s 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 ..." |
 | | More(1st Edition) A Novel by Austin Clarke Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2009 by Amistad ISBN-13: 978-0-06-177240-5, ISBN: 0-06-177240-2 "At the news of her son BJ's involvement in gang crime, Idora Morrison, a maid at the local university, collapses in her basement apartment. For four days and nights she retreats into a vortex of memory, pain, and disappointment that becomes a riveting expose of her life as a Caribbean immigrant living abroad. While she struggled to make ends meet, her deadbeat husband, Bertram, abandoned her for a better life in New York. Left alone to ..." |
 | | The Polished Hoe(1st Edition) by Austin Clarke, Isbn 10: 0060555653 Hardcover, 480 Pages, Published 2003 by Amistad Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-06-055565-8, ISBN: 0-06-055565-3 "When Mary-Mathilda, one of the most respected women on the colonized island of Bimshire (also known as Barbados), calls the police to confess to a crime, the result is a shattering all-night vigil. She claims the crime is against Mr. Belfeels, the powerful manager of the sugar plantation that dominates the villagers' lives and for whom she has worked for more than thirty years as a field laborer, kitchen help, and maid. She was also Mr. ..." |
 | | Pig Tails 'N Breadfruit(1st Edition) A Culinary Memoir by Austin Clarke Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2000 by The New Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56584-580-0, ISBN: 1-56584-580-3 "Praised as “masterful” by the New York Times and “uncommonly talented” by Publishers Weekly and winner of the 1999 Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award, Austin Clarke has a distinguished reputation as one of the preeminent Caribbean writers of our time. In Pig Tails ’n Breadfruit, he has created a tantalizing “culinary memoir” of his childhood in Barbados. Clarke describes how he learned traditional Bajan cooking—food with origins i ..." |
 | | 'Membering(1st Edition) by Austin Clarke Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2015 by Tap Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4597-3034-2, ISBN: 1-4597-3034-8 "2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature — Longlisted 2016 RBC Taylor Prize — Longlisted The unforgettable memoir of Giller Prize–winning author and poet Austin Clarke, called “Canada’s first multicultural writer.” Austin 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 ’Memberin ..." |
 | | The Meeting Point by Austin Clarke Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 1998 by Vintage Canada International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-676-97160-6, ISBN: 0-676-97160-1 |
 | | In Your Crib (Essential Poets Series) by Austin Clarke Paperback, 65 Pages, Published 2015 by Guernica Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-77183-020-1, ISBN: 1-77183-020-4 "Two black men: the poet, an elder and veteran of last century?s civil rights movement; and a nameless youth, swaggering and beltless, seduced by guns-and-gangs and expensive cars, and perpetually targeted by police. They are brothers by the colour of their skin, neighbours in the same ?crib,? yet separated by a lifetime of experience. Invoking memories of his personal encounters with leaders like Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and Amiri ..." |
 | | More(Reprint) A Novel by Austin Clarke, Clive Barker Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 2010 by Amistad ISBN-13: 978-0-06-177241-2, ISBN: 0-06-177241-0 " At the news of her son BJs involvement in gang crime, Idora Morrison, a maid at the local university, collapses in her basement apartment. For four days and nights she retreats into a vortex of memory, pain, and disappointment that becomes a riveting exposÉ of her life as a Caribbean immigrant living abroad. Abandoned by her deadbeat husband, Bertram, and left alone to raise her son, Idora has done her best to survive against immense ..." |
 | | The Fires of Baal by Austin Clarke Paperback, Published 2015 by Fb C Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-332-12788-7, ISBN: 1-332-12788-6 |
 | | The Sword of the West by Austin Clarke Paperback, Published 2015 by Forgotten Books, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-332-20266-9, ISBN: 1-332-20266-7 |
 | | MORE by Austin Clarke Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 2010 by Tindal Street Press ISBN-13: 978-1-906994-03-7, ISBN: 1-906994-03-X |
 | | More (Paperback) by Austin Clarke Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2009 by Thomas Allen ISBN-13: 978-0-88762-466-7, ISBN: 0-88762-466-9 |
 | | The Polished Hoe(Updated) by Austin Clarke Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 2005 by Harpercollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-7322-8106-9, ISBN: 0-7322-8106-7 "The Polished Hoe is the winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Canada′s Giller Prize and Ontario′s Trillium Book Award." |
 | | The Polished Hoe(Updated) (Paperback) by Austin Clarke Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2004 by Tindal Street ISBN-13: 978-0-9541303-8-1, ISBN: 0-9541303-8-3 |
 | | The Polished Hoe(Updated) by Austin Clarke Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2004 by Harpercollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-7322-8107-6, ISBN: 0-7322-8107-5 |
 | | The Polished Hoe(1st Edition) A Novel by Austin Clarke Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2003 by Thomas Allen & Son, Limited ISBN-13: 978-0-88762-134-5, ISBN: 0-88762-134-1 "Austin Clarke, Toronto resident and Barbados native, maintains that he doesn't write for the limelight, but alas the honours have come in: the Rogers Communications Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for The Origin of Waves, a Governor General's Award nomination for The Question, the W.O. Mitchell Prize for his literary mentorship and his outstanding body of work, and finally Canada's largest and most esteemed annual award for fiction, t ..." |
 | | The Question by Austin Clarke Paperback, Published 1999 by Mcclelland & Stewart Ltd 1999-01-01 ISBN-13: 978-0-7710-2128-2, ISBN: 0-7710-2128-3 |
 | | The Origin of Waves. A Novel by Austin Clarke Paperback, 245 Pages, Published 1997 by Mcclelland And Stewart ISBN-13: 978-0-7710-2127-5, ISBN: 0-7710-2127-5 "BOOKS BY AUSTIN CLARKE FICTION The Survivors of the Crossing Amongst ... This City There Are No Elders NONFICTION Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack A ..." |
 | | Penny In the Clouds More Memories of Ire(Updated) by Austin Clarke Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 1990 by Moytura Press ISBN-13: 978-1-871305-03-6, ISBN: 1-871305-03-9 |
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