Author: Austin ClarkePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Amongst Thorns and Thistles
Author: Austin ClarkeAmongst Thistles and Thorns
Author: Austin ClarkePublisher: New Canadian Library
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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"Set in Barbados in the early 1950s, this uncompromising novel depicts the pain of childhood in a world where poverty and blackness are despised, and kids are treated as objects on which adults can take out their self-contempt and frustration. Milton Sobers is a nine-year-old on the run from a series of sadistic beatings from both his schoolmaster and his washer-woman mother. Dreaming of a life in Harlem, which is predominately black, open, and free, Milton encounters many comic and sad adventures that inevitably return him to the situation he was trying to escape. Originally published in 1965, this pertinent portrayal of the destruction of innocence explores the commonality of physical violence in the lives of Caribbean youth while offering hope for the intelligent child protagonist."--Goodreads
Amongst Thistles and Thorns
Author: Austin Chesterfield ClarkePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 167
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Amongst Thistles and Thorns
Author: Austin Clarke (Schriftsteller)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 183
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’Membering
Author: Austin ClarkePublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459730364
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description
2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature — Longlisted 2016 RBC Taylor Prize — Longlisted The unforgettable memoir of Giller Prize–winning author and poet Austin Clarke, called “Canada’s first multicultural writer.” 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 ’Membering, 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. 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.
The Gospel According to Matthew
Author: Publisher: Canongate U.S.
ISBN: 9780802136169
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The publication of the King James version of the Bible, translated between 1603 and 1611, coincided with an extraordinary flowering of English literature and is universally acknowledged as the greatest influence on English-language literature in history. Now, world-class literary writers introduce the book of the King James Bible in a series of beautifully designed, small-format volumes. The introducers' passionate, provocative, and personal engagements with the spirituality and the language of the text make the Bible come alive as a stunning work of literature and remind us of its overwhelming contemporary relevance.
The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers
Author: Thorns and Thistles
Author: Mrs. H. S. StangerThe Apostolic Fathers
Author: Apostolic FathersPublisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 1575673312
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Now with a new foreword by Mark Galli. A collection of the earliest known writings of the church, The Apostolic Fathers includes a sermon and six brief documents: the First and Second Epistles of Clement, the Didache, the Epistles of Ignatius, the Epistle of Polycarp, the Epistle about Polycarp's Martyrdom, and the Shepherd of Hermas. "There are two ways, one of life and one of death," begins the Didache, "and between the two ways there is a great difference." Followers of the way of life today will find much encouragement of those who first embarked on the path two millennia ago. The John Lightfoot (1602-1675) translation was the source used for this edition of Apostolic Fathers.
Journal of the Switchmen's Union
Author: Switchmen's Union of North AmericaPublisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 968
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