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The Polished Hoe
- By: Austin Clarke
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 18 hrs and 49 mins
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Winner of both the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, The Polished Hoe is acclaimed author Austin Clarke's masterpiece. On a Caribbean island in the 1950s, elderly Mary Gertrude Mathilda commits murder. As she explains herself to police, her story exposes the ugly underbelly of life on Caribbean plantations, with its slavery and brutality.
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the murder mystery is not the point
- By connie on 08-24-10
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The Polished Hoe
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 18 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 11-13-09
- Language: English
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- A Novel
- By: Austin Clarke
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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Winner of the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for his novel The Polished Hoe, Austin Clarke is among Canada’s most celebrated authors. More follows Barbados native and Toronto resident Idora Morrison, who cannot muster the desire to rise one morning. Her husband has left her, her son has chosen gang life, and societal prejudices have slowly chipped away at her resolve.
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- A Novel
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 04-16-10
- Language: English
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’Membering
- By: Austin Clarke
- Narrated by: Nigel Shawn Williams
- Length: 24 hrs and 26 mins
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Austin Clarke is a distinguished and celebrated novelist and short-story writer. His works often center around the immigrant experience, of which he writes with humor 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.
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’Membering
- Narrated by: Nigel Shawn Williams
- Length: 24 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 09-08-20
- Language: English
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More: International Edition
- By: Austin Clarke
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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Winner of the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for his novel The Polished Hoe, Austin Clarke is among Canada's most celebrated authors. More follows Barbados native and Toronto resident Idora Morrison, who cannot muster the desire to rise one morning. Her husband has left her, her son has chosen gang life, and societal prejudices have slowly chipped away at her resolve.
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More: International Edition
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 10-29-20
- Language: English
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