Product Description

From the author of the GILLER AWARD - winning novel "The Polished Hoe" comes a new collection of 20 of his best short stories. "Choosing His Coffin" is a selection of Austin Clarke's finest work from more than 40 years of storytelling, drawing on his Caribbean roots and his years in Canada. These stories range in theme from growing up in West Indian society and what it means to be black in both the United States and Canada to surviving as an immigrant in a predominantly Anglo-Saxon culture. Clarke has become one of the most respected authors in North America and is one of Canada's national literary treasures. He is a master of fictional invention.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3313679 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Review
"All of Clarke's talent comes together: the understated compassion, the sly humour, the seductive language, and the adroit diversions." (Globe and Mail )

"A novelist of exceptional gifts." (New York Times )

"It is hard to fault Clarke...good novels like his are rare." (Saturday Night )

About the Author
Austin Clarke is the winner of the 2002 Giller Prize, the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize, and the 16th Annual Trillium Prize for "The Polished Hoe." He is also the winner of the 1999 W.O. Mitchell Prize, awarded each year to a Canadian writer who has produced an outstanding body of work and served as a mentor for other writers. Clarke, who lives in Toronto, is the author of nine novels and six short-story collections and ten novels, including "The Origin of Waves" and "The Question".