{"product_id":"9781459730366","title":"'Membering","description":"\u003ci\u003e2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature — Longlisted\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e2016 RBC Taylor Prize — Longlisted\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe unforgettable memoir of Giller Prize–winning author and poet Austin Clarke, called “Canada’s first multicultural writer.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003e’Membering\u003c\/i\u003e, Clarke shares his own experiences growing up in Barbados and moving to Toronto to attend university in 1955 before becoming a journalist. With vivid realism he describes Harlem of the ’60s, meeting and interviewing Malcolm X and writers Chinua Achebe and LeRoi Jones. Clarke went on to become a pioneering instructor of Afro-American Literature at Yale University and inspired a new generation of Afro-American writers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Clarke has been called Canada’s first multicultural writer. Here he eschews a traditional chronological order of events and takes the reader on a lyrical tour of his extraordinary life, interspersed with thought-provoking meditations on politics and race. Telling things as he ’members them.","brand":"Dundurn Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129199050992,"sku":"9781459730366","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781459730366_p0.jpg?v=1763871753","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781459730366","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}