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The Bigger Light.

by CLARKE, Austin

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  • Hardcover
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1975). First American edition. 21.5 cm x 14.7 cm, red boards, pp. 288. Clarke's fifth novel. Printed in the United States of America. Small erasure on first blank, tiny bump at lower edge of front board, else near fine in dust jacket with a small area of rubbing to spine, some small edge nicks and edge wear. A nice copy of an uncommon book..

Synopsis

Austin Clarke was born in Barbados and came to Canada to study at Trinity College in the University of Toronto. He has enjoyed a varied and distinguished career as a broadcaster, civil rights leader, and professor. His award-winning work, which includes eight novels and five collections of short fiction, is widely studied in Canadian universities. He is formerly, writer in residence at the University of Guelph, and is the 1998 inaugural winner of The Rogers Communications Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. He lives in Toronto.

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Bookseller
Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
13232
Title
The Bigger Light.
Author
CLARKE, Austin
Book Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1975). First American edition.
Keywords
CANLITA-L
Bookseller catalogs
African-Canadian Literature;

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