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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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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.
Subject
  • Motorcyclists > Fiction
  • Black people > Nova Scotia > Halifax > Fiction
  • Blacks
  • Motorcyclists
  • Halifax (N.S.) > Fiction
  • Nova Scotia > Halifax
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
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