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Award Winning Canadian Poet turned Author George Elliott Clarke’s “George & Rue”
GEORGE & RUE is about a death that brims with fierce vitality and dark humor. Infused with the sensual, rhythmic beauty that defines Clarke’s writing, this is a literary debut that is marked by celebration—and controversy...George Elliot Clarke was thirty-four years old when, shortly before his mother’s death, she told him for the first time the story of his matrilineal first cousins, George and Rufus Hamilton. In a robbery gone wrong, the brothers committed a “slug-ugly”crime on January 7, 1949, drunkenly bludgeoning to death a taxi driver for the money in his wallet. The brothers, partly descended from African-American slaves and native Mi’kmaq, were both hanged for the killing later that year.
GEORGE & RUE shifts seamlessly back into the killers’ pasts, recounting a bleak and sometimes darkly comic tale of victims of violence who became killers, a black community too poor and too ashamed to assist its downtrodden members, and a white community bent on condemning all blacks as dangerous outsiders. Written in a lyrical, bluesy style that Clarke calls “blackened English,” GEORGE & RUE is an extraordinary debut novel about death that brims with a fierce vitality.
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