George And Rue
A Cultural, Canada, Historical book. just come - from amazon, nice hardback. Although I am being swept along by the torrent of his prose, I...
It was, by all accounts, a slug-ugly crime. Brothers George and Rufus Hamilton, in a robbery gone wrong, drunkenly bludgeoned a taxi driver to death with a hammer. It was 1949, and the two siblings, part Mi'kmaq and part African, were both hanged for the killing. Those facts are also skeletons in George Elliott Clarke's family closet. Both repelled and intrigued by his ancestral...
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- Pages: 244 pages
- ISBN: 9780006485698 / 6485693
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anybody who likes good writing just come - from amazon, nice hardback. Although I am being swept along by the torrent of his prose, I haven't got very far as I keep going back to re-read, and re-read again....stunning book. Vivid, intense, unrelenting, written by a poet about cousins of his who were hung for murder in 1949. The book uses real letters and notes and... It's hard to figure out what to say about this one. It's not a particularly enjoyable read, but it's beautiful and horrifying, and worth sticking with through the (fairly graphic) violence. Apparently, it's now out of print, which is a shame, so if you see it, buy it. Read it.
