'membering - by Austin Clarke (Paperback)

About the Book

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

Book Synopsis

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

Review Quotes

[a] brilliant free-range style of writing, which is enfolded in discussions of ideas, interaction with other writers and fragments of [Clarke's] own memories and reflections of 'membering.

[a] brilliant free-range style of writing, which is enfolded in discussions of ideas, interaction with other writers and fragments of [Clarke's] own memories and reflections of 'membering.-- "Literary Review of Canada"

[I]t is difficult to think of another Canadian writer so equipped through experience and sensibility - and graciousness, it must be said -- to trace the attempts, stuttering at times, that Canada has made from the 1960s onward to accommodate diversity.

[I]t is difficult to think of another Canadian writer so equipped through experience and sensibility -- and graciousness, it must be said -- to trace the attempts, stuttering at times, that Canada has made from the 1960s onward to accommodate diversity.-- "Globe and Mail"

[W]hat is most evident throughout 'Membering is Clarke's voice, which is rich, engaging, and - to use the author's own word - singular.

[W]hat is most evident throughout 'Membering is Clarke's voice, which is rich, engaging, and - to use the author's own word - singular.-- "Quill & Quire"

A magnificent account of a writer's life.

A magnificent account of a writer's life.--Globe and Mail

Clarke's voice ... is rich, engaging, and - to use the author's own word - singular.

Clarke's voice ... is rich, engaging, and -- to use the author's own word -- singular.-- "Quill & Quire"

About the Author

Austin Clarke is one of Canada's foremost authors, whose work includes ten novels, six short-story collections, three memoirs, and two collections of poetry. His novel The Polished Hoe won the 2002 Giller Prize. Clarke is a member of the Order of Canada, holds four honorary doctorates, and has been awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the W.O. Mitchell Prize, the Casa de las Américas Prize, and the Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Excellence in Writing, among others. In his fifty-year career he has worked as a journalist, a professor, and a cultural attaché in Washington D.C. He lives in Toronto.