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George and Rue

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.

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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."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "The writer of the award-winning Execution Poems shares a fictional depiction of the lives and motivations of two ancestral cousins, who suffered underprivileged and violent childhoods and were condemned and hanged by the white community for their role in killing a taxi driver."
  • "A novel loosely based on the lives of two African Canadian brothers in Nova Scotia who were convicted and executed for murdering a cab driver."
  • "In 1949, George and Rufus Hamilton? who were cousins of the author? murdered a white taxi driver named Nacre Pearly Burgundy in rural New Brunswick. In less than a year, they were hanged. A blast of cold air? in this case, the air of the disenfranchised and hungry young black men who grow up with beatings and end up committing murder."

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  • "George & Rue : a novel"
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