{"product_id":"book-e9hj","title":"’Membering","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe unforgettable memoir of Giller Prize–winning author and poet Austin Clarke, called “Canada’s first multicultural writer.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAustin 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 \u003cem\u003e’Membering\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClarke 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ECW Press Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49371960148272,"sku":"BDe9hj","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/282734-e9hj-Square.jpg?v=1734685051","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-e9hj","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}