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From the winner of the 2002 Giller Prize comes Austin Clarke's much anticipated new novel, More. At the news of her son's involvement in gang crime, Idora Morrison collapses in her rented basement apartment. For four days and nights, she retreats into a vortex of memory, pain, and disappointment that unravels a riveting dissection of her life as a black immigrant to Toronto. Idora has lived in Canada for 25 years. She has struggled to make ends meet and her deadbeat husband Bertram has abandoned her for a better life in America. Left alone to raise her son BJ, Idora does her best to survive against very difficult odds. Now that BJ has disappeared into a life of crime and gang warfare, she recoils from this loss and tries to understand how her life has spiraled into this tragic place. In spite of her circumstances, Idora finds her way back into the light with a courage that is both remarkable and unforgettable. Perhaps the most political of all of Austin Clarke's novels, More is a p
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A novelist of exceptional gifts * New York Times * Clarke's shift in focus to the complexity of race and poverty in present-day Canada makes More a perfect follow-up to The Polished Hoe's poetic historicism * Toronto Globe and Mail * More tackles the shame, anger and frustrations of black immigrants dealing with prejudices prevalent not only in their new country, but also within their own communities * Montreal Gazette * More may stand as one of the crowning glories of Clarke's career * Quill & Quire *
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At the news of her son BJ's involvement in gang crime, IdoraMorrison, a maid at the local university, collapses in her basementapartment. For four days and nights she retreats into a vortex ofmemory, pain, and disappointment that becomes a riveting expose of her life as a Caribbean immigrant living abroad. Abandoned by her deadbeat husband, Bertram, and left alone to raise her son, Idora has done her best to survive against immense odds. But now that BJ has disappeared into a life of crime, she recoils from his loss and is unable to get out of bed, burdened by feelings of invisibility. Slowly, however, Idora summons the strength to investigate her son's troubles--and her own weaknesses--as she finds her way back into the light with a couragethat is both remarkable and unforgettable.
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- PublisherThomas Allen Pub
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0887624669
- ISBN 13 9780887624667
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages304
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