Choosing His Coffin: The Best Stories of Austin ClarkeFrom the author of the Giller Award - winning novel The Polished Hoe comes a new collection of 20 of his best short stories. Choosing His Coffin is a selection of Austin Clarke’s finest work from more than 40 years of storytelling, drawing on his Caribbean roots and his years in Canada. These stories range in theme from growing up in West Indian society and what it means to be black in both the United States and Canada to surviving as an immigrant in a predominantly Anglo-Saxon culture. Clarke has become one of the most respected authors in North America and is one of Canada’s national literary treasures. He is a master of fictional invention. |
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Page 93
... Didn't I ? Didn't I do it , baby ? " and I looked towards the stage , in the deeper darkness there , through the large , slow - moving dancers , expecting to see Aretha Franklin in the flesh . What a victory it would be , to know her ...
... Didn't I ? Didn't I do it , baby ? " and I looked towards the stage , in the deeper darkness there , through the large , slow - moving dancers , expecting to see Aretha Franklin in the flesh . What a victory it would be , to know her ...
Page 191
... didn't really know a man by complexion or features , both of which were dimmed in the light which the proprietor called " cozy . " And Joe had never walked so close , so long , beside Lex before . But today he had been carried away by ...
... didn't really know a man by complexion or features , both of which were dimmed in the light which the proprietor called " cozy . " And Joe had never walked so close , so long , beside Lex before . But today he had been carried away by ...
Page 201
... didn't born here . So I controls myself to suit , and make the white man money . The car only a couple of months off . I see one already that I got my two eyes on . And if God willing , by the next two months , DV , I sitting down in ...
... didn't born here . So I controls myself to suit , and make the white man money . The car only a couple of months off . I see one already that I got my two eyes on . And if God willing , by the next two months , DV , I sitting down in ...
Contents
The Discipline | 1 |
Canadian Experience | 23 |
An Easter Carol | 63 |
Copyright | |
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