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The motorcyclist
- Title
- The motorcyclist / George Elliott Clarke.
- Author
- Clarke, George Elliott
- Publication
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, [2016]
- ©2016
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 16-1363 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Details
- Description
- x, 271 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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. Carl Black is an intellectual and artist, a traveller, a reader and an unapologetic womanizer. As 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, this novel 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. In vibrant, energetic, sensual prose, Clarke brilliantly illuminates the life of a young black man striving for pleasure, success and, most of all, respect.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- Sc E 16-1363
- ISBN
- 9781443445139
- 1443445134
- OCLC
- 928959448
- Author
- Clarke, George Elliott, author.
- Title
- The motorcyclist / George Elliott Clarke.
- Publisher
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 16-1363