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THE MEETING POINT.
by Clarke, Austin
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine, in a good dust jacket (address label on front endpaper, dj has rubbin/black cloth with gold lettering on the spine, in a good
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About This Item
Toronto:: Macmillan,, (1967). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine, in a good dust jacket (address label on front endpaper, dj has rubbing and wear to all folds, some very short edgetears). First printing. The third novel by this highly acclaimed Barbadian-Canadian author, set among West Indian immigrants in Toronto. Clarke was the winner (among many other awards) of the 1999 W. O. Mitchell literary prize. Warmly INSCRIBED on the title page "For --- with a better memory of Chicago than Chicago, and with a line more profound then the Blue Ridge Mountain's beautiful line" and dated at Yale in 1968. 250 pp.
Synopsis
Austin Clarke was born in Barbados and came to Canada to study at Trinity College in the University of Toronto. He has enjoyed a varied and distinguished career as a broadcaster, civil rights leader, and professor. His award-winning work, which includes eight novels and five collections of short fiction, is widely studied in residence at the University of Guelph, and is the 1998 inaugural winner of The Rogers Communications Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. He lives in Toronto.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 68909
- Title
- THE MEETING POINT.
- Author
- Clarke, Austin
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine, in a good dust jacket (address label on front endpaper, dj has rubbin
- Jacket Condition
- black cloth with gold lettering on the spine, in a good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan,
- Place of Publication
- Toronto:
- Date Published
- (1967)
- Keywords
- canadian literature, barbados, caribbean,
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American Literature;
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