There Will Never Be Another Austin Clarke / Patrick CreanĢ2. Do Not Let Them Choose the Fragrance / Austin ClarkeĢ1. Austin Clarke Love Poem / Cyril DabydeenĢ0. Austin Clarke: Defying the Silence, a Life in Letters / John Harewoodġ9. “The Wordshop of the Kitchen”: Impressions of Austin Clarke and Paule Marshall / Asha Varadharajanġ8. The Lessons of Austin Clarke / Sonnet L’Abbéġ5. “These Virtues o’ the Cullinerry Harts”: Talking Food and Politics in the Letters of Austin Clarke, Sam Selvon, and Andrew Salkey / Kris Singhġ1.

Sometimes, A Motherless Child: A Double Take / Giovanna Riccioĩ. Editorial Notes for “When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks” / Dennis LeeĨ. Burrowing Into the Craft: Editing Austin Clarke / Dennis Leeħ. That Man, That Man-Stories and Confabulations / Austin ClarkeĦ. Only Old Men”: Aging and Misogyny in Austin Clarke’s Later Fiction / Camille Isaacsĥ.

Dear Austin: Why Teaching Your Work Is Difficult / Leslie SandersĤ. On Austin Clarke’s Style / Paul Barrettģ. The Trouble of Intimacy / Rinaldo WalcottĢ. From one of our masters of the novel form, this is very much a book for our times.1. More is an extraordinary story about oppression and redemption and hope. While his previous novel was a metaphorical history of slavery, More is an allegorical story about the complexities of race in modern western culture.

It is in many ways a companion volume to the award-winning The Polished Hoe.

Perhaps the most political of all of Austin Clarke’s novels, More is a powerful indictment of the iniquities of racial discrimination and the crime of poverty. In spite of her circumstances, Idora finds her way back into the light with a courage that is both remarkable and unforgettable. Now that BJ has disappeared into a life of crime and gang warfare, she recoils from this loss and tries to understand how her life has spiraled into this tragic place. Left alone to raise her son BJ, Idora does her best to survive against very difficult odds. She has struggled to make ends meet and her deadbeat husband Bertram has abandoned her for a better life in America. For four days and nights, she retreats into a vortex of memory, pain, and disappointment that unravels a riveting dissection of her life as a black immigrant to Toronto. At the news of her son’s involvement in gang crime, Idora Morrison collapses in her rented basement apartment. Winner of the 2009 Toronto Book Award From the winner of the 2002 Giller Prize comes Austin Clarke’s much anticipated new novel, More.

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