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 Toronto Book Awards 2009 Get a New Read on Toronto
More is an extraordinary story about oppression, redemption and hope. After Idora Morrison's deadbeat husband abandons her, she does her best to survive against difficult odds. At the news of her son's involvement in gang crime, Idora retreats into a vortex of memory, pain and disappointment that unravels as a riveting dissection of her life as a black immigrant to Toronto. Austin Clarke's work includes six short story collections, three memoirs and eleven novels, including The Polished Hoe, which won the 2002 Giller Prize, the 2003 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the 2003 Trillium Award. Clarke has been named to the Order of Canada and has received four honourary doctorates. He lives in Toronto.
Updated on: September 14, 2009
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