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The meeting point

Clarke, Austin 1934- (author.).

Summary: 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: print
    249 pages ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, [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
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Genre: Black fiction.
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