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How to Write a Book

Kanye Pruitt

25 September 2008

Last book tour for Giller-winning writer of The Polished Hoe was an extended holiday'. It was up to Scarborough and back down to Toronto, Clarke recalls.

In those days we did not have the film-star-ish perspective to the promotion of a book. These days , naturally, it is way more exciting. At 74, the Barbados-born, Toronto-based writer is revving up for another round of readings and signings in connection with his new novel, more. The tour culminates with a return Toronto engagement at the end of October at the Global Holiday of writers at Harbourfront Centre. So being sent across the land to promote a book is sort of a holiday to me, he asserts. And it gives you an appreciation of the landscape of the country in which you live. As with any vacation, sometimes things can get a little straight away. It absolutely was a situation where I was kind of on an extended holiday. And I kind of did enjoy myself, he is saying, while being interviewed this week at the Toronto office of publisher Thomas Allen.

But I wasn't ready to separate excitement and the furore enough to focus for even one afternoon on the subsequent book. That is why it has taken me such ages to bring out another one. The calendar was ultimately clear enough by 2005 for Clarke to focus his attention more exactly on more. Finally , he pared down the amount of characters, whilst adding the girl's child, a 19-year-old gang member, as a principally off-stage presence.

I believed that I could get at him more energetically by having him as him as a shade presence, like a spook. Writing from a lady's viewpoint was less cryptic. Growing up in Barbados, I was extraordinarily close to my mother, Clarke recalls. I wasn't allowed after college to play cricket with the boys due to homework and other needs. And when my mum became sick, which at a certain time was more frequent, I had to take over the obligations that she would have done, and my personal. It made a contribution to my understanding or consciousness of how a lady would behave. Where and When : Word in the street, Bestsellers Stage, Sun. at two p.m. At Queen's Park Circle ; This isn't a Reading Series, Mon. at 7:30 p.m. At the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St W. This week's flicks Viggo Mortensen stars in Appaloosa.

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