The meeting point / Austin C. Clarke.
The Meeting Point is the superb inaugural novel in Austin Clarke's trilogy about the experiences and obstacles faced by Toronto's West Indian immigrant population. Bernice Leach, Clarke's heroine, is a tempestuous Barbadian woman in young middle age working as a domestic for a wealthy Forest Hill lawyer and his alcoholic wife. Bernice and her few friends--Dots, a fellow domestic with a chronically unemployed husband, Boysie; Henry, Boysie's more successful friend; Agatha, Henry's young Jewish girlfriend; Brigitte, a German domestic who works for a neighbouring family; and Estelle, Bernice's inexperienced younger sister who is in Toronto for a short visit--face a wrenching series of financial, racial, sexual, and political disasters.
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- Physical Description: 249 pages ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, [1967].
- Copyright: ©1967.
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General Note: | The first vol. of a trilogy; the second vol. is Storm of fortune; the third vol. is The bigger light. |
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Subject: | West Indians > Canada > Fiction. Multiculturalism > Canada > Fiction. Household employees > Fiction. Culture conflict > Fiction. Toronto (Ont.) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Black fiction. Canadian fiction. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Prince Rupert Library | Clar (Text) | 33294000100248 | Adult Fiction - Second Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |