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    George And Rue

    By George Elliott Clarke

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    By all accounts, the bludgeoning murder in 1949 of a taxi driver by brothers George and Rufus Hamilton was a slug-ugly" crime. George and Rue were hanged for it. Repelled and intrigued by his ancestral cousins’ deeds, George Elliott Clarke uncovered a story of violence, poverty and shame -- a story that led first to the Governor General’s Award–winning Execution Poems and culminated in Clarke’s brilliant and darkly comic debut novel.

    Named an editor’s choice by The Bookseller in the UK, George & Rue is a book about death that brims with fierce vitality and the sensual, rhythmic beauty that so often defines Clarke’s writing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJan 4, 2011
    ISBN9781443406567
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    George Elliott Clarke

    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.

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      A stunning and poetic book by one of my favourite writers. Clarke delves into the details behind George and Rufus Hamilton's murder of a taxi driver in New Brunswick, in the mid-20th century. The author previously published Execution Poems, a poetic portrayal of the men and their crime; while the poems were sparse and haunting, the novel is immersive and rich. While it is certainly a compelling story, it is Clarke's language that makes the reader stop and think about the real barriers for Black Canadians, the limited choices they had, and the choice that George and Rue ended up making in light of this. While George is a gentle man who loves farming, Rue is an ambitious lover whose follows a reckless path after the woman he loves falls through the ice in winter on her way to see him. Clarke's portrayal of the complex relationship between the two brothers defies any simplistic assumptions about violent crime. This is an absolutely physical book, at turns erotic, painful, exuberant, and suspenseful. Clarke pulls you along with George and Rue from the opening pages until the brothers' execution. One of the better novels I've ever read.