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The Origin of Waves - Softcover

Clarke, Austin

 
9780771021305: The Origin of Waves
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0771021305 ISBN 13: 9780771021305
Verlag: McClelland & Stewart, 2003

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Austin Clarke’s luminous novel, written in vivid, hypnotic prose, reveals the dislocations of place and the nature of memory and the past. Two elderly Barbadian men, childhood friends who haven’t seen each other in fifty years, collide in a snowstorm on a Toronto street. In the warmth of a nearby bar, through the afternoon and into the night, they relate stories, exchange opinions, and share memories of a past in Barbados when, as children, neither could conceive any other place existed for them. As these two men confess to each other their innermost truths, their exploits and their love affairs, one tells the haunting story of a young Chinese woman, the other of the real reason for his visit to Toronto. Infused with pathos and humour, and with an affecting nostalgia for the idea of home, The Origin of Waves is a stunning and original novel by one of the country’s most gifted writers.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Austin Clarke has enjoyed a varied career as a broadcaster, civil rights leader, professor and diplomat. He is the author of eight novels and five collections of short fiction. His many honours include the Order of Canada, the W.O. Mitchell Literary Prize and the Rogers Communications Writer's Trust Fiction Prize.

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“Austin Clarke not only writes in a voice that is entirely his own, he is also one of the more talented novelists at work in the English language today.…His fiction is unique, surprising, comfortable until the moment when it becomes uncomfortable. Then you realize you have learned something new that you didn’t want to know – and it’s essential knowledge. And so on you go, alternately congratulating and cursing Austin Clarke.”
–Norman Mailer

“Uncommonly talented, Clarke sees deeply, and transmits his visions and perceptions so skillfully that reading him is an adventure.”
–Publisher’s Weekly

“He has forcefully demonstrated that distance can sharpen a writer’s focus and deepen perceptions.”
–Globe and Mail

“Clarke has a matchless ear for dialogue.…He succeeds in making his pages brilliant.”
–Boston Globe

“Clarke the novelist is very much in charge. He never falls into the trap of making his characters vehicles for mouthing this or that political ideology. They are no more or less than the human beings that his literary alchemy brings to life.…”
–Toronto Star

“Clarke is magnificent in transferring to print the music, the poetry, the complete aptness of the West Indian dialogue.…as near poetry as prose can become.”
–Charlotte Observer

“…he became the first black Canadian writer to investigate the social and psychological dimensions of the contact of his people with their new society, and the first of such writers to delve into the ambivalence towards self.…”
–Stella Algoo-Baksh from Austin Clarke: A Biography

Aus dem Klappentext

Austin Clarke?s luminous novel, written in vivid, hypnotic prose, reveals the dislocations of place and the nature of memory and the past. Two elderly Barbadian men, childhood friends who haven?t seen each other in fifty years, collide in a snowstorm on a Toronto street. In the warmth of a nearby bar, through the afternoon and into the night, they relate stories, exchange opinions, and share memories of a past in Barbados when, as children, neither could conceive any other place existed for them. As these two men confess to each other their innermost truths, their exploits and their love affairs, one tells the haunting story of a young Chinese woman, the other of the real reason for his visit to Toronto. Infused with pathos and humour, and with an affecting nostalgia for the idea of home, The Origin of Waves is a stunning and original novel by one of the country?s most gifted writers.

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Verlag
McClelland & Stewart
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0771021305
ISBN 13 
9780771021305
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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