The Motorcyclist - Couverture rigide

Clarke, George Elliott

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1443445134 ISBN 13 : 9781443445139

Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

Just start your engine. Go.

Carl Black is an intellectual and artist, a traveller, a reader and an unapologetic womanizer. A motorcyclist. He burns for the bohemian life, but is trapped in a railway porter’s prosaic—at times humiliating—existence. Taking place over one dramatic year in Halifax, Nova Scotia, The Motorcyclist vividly recounts Carl’s travels and romantic exploits as he tours the backroads of the east coast and the bedrooms of a series of beautiful women. Inspired by the life of George Elliott Clarke’s father, the novel tells the story of a black working-class man caught between the expectations of his times and gleaming possibilities of the open road.

In vibrant, energetic, sensual prose, George Elliott Clarke brilliantly illuminates the life of a young black man striving for pleasure, success and, most of all, respect.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

George Elliott Clarke’s books include George & Rue, winner of the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction and longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; Execution Poems, winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry; and Whylah Falls, winner of the Archibald Lampman Award for poetry and chosen for CBC’s inaugural Canada Reads competition. In 2008, he was appointed to the Order of Canada at the rank of Officer. He was recently the Poet Laureate of Toronto, from 2012 to 2015, and currently teaches at the University of Toronto.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1443445134
• ISBN 13: 9781443445139
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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