THE MOTORCYCLIST
Book ID/图书代码： 12760015B77351
English Summary/英文概要： Carl Black is an intellectual and artist, a traveller, a reader and an unapologetic womanizer. 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, The Motorcyclist 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. 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.
In vibrant, energetic, sensual prose, George Elliott Clarke brilliantly illuminates the life of a young black man striving for pleasure, success and, most of all, respect.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Carl Black，知识分子，艺术家，旅行家，读者，花花公子，摩托车手。他向往波西米亚式的生自由活，却被困在铁路搬运工枯燥乏味的生活之中。小说讲述了一年中发生在新斯科舍哈利法克斯极具戏剧性的故事，生动描绘了主人在公东海岸公路和几个美丽女人房间内的旅途和浪漫经历。小说灵感来自于George Elliott Clarke的父亲，讲述了一名工人阶级黑人的故事。(LYR)
Awards/获奖情况：作者为读者呈现出的这位黑人主人公的经历不同于任何来自非洲或美国的作品。同时，他像好奇的读者们展现了父辈们当时的生活状态……
“Carl Black is an intellectual and artist, a traveler and an unapologetic womanizer. A motorcyclist. He burns for the bohemian life, but is trapped in a railway worker’s prosaic—at times humiliating—existence. Taking place over one dramatic year in and around Halifax, Nova Scotia, The Motorcyclist vividly recounts Carl’s travels and romantic exploits as he tours the backroads of the east coast and courts a bevy of beautiful women. Inspired by the 1959 diary of the author’s father, the novel is a portrait of a black working-class man caught between the expectations of his times and the gleaming possibilities of the open road. In vibrant, energetic, sensual prose, George Elliott Clarke brilliantly illuminates the life of a young black man striving for pleasure, success and, most of all, respect.”
George Elliott Clarke introduces us to a black experience different to anything that comes out of Africa or the USA. At the same time, he speaks to all of us who have ever been curious about what our parents’ lives were like before we existed. And to all of us who enjoy rambunctious language.
• The novel has just had a two-page feature starred review in our trade rag, QUILL AND QUIRE (attached). It is all so amazing that it is hard to choose a pull-quote, but we can start with “dazzling” in the headline, and move on to the last paragraph:
“This ribald, raw, road-movie of a novel is an object lesson in how to combine the political with the personal; if the title wasn’t already taken, Clarke could easily have called the novel Dreams of My Father.”
• The author has been all over the news in Canada because he has just been named national poet laureate. Article about that in our national paper also attached. Judging from it, he may make poetry sexy again.
• The novel will be published in Canada in February.
“The prose flows like music and will have you dreaming about the romance of the road and the heat between a man and a woman.”-- Canadian Living magazine
“The Motorcyclist, with its dense, rich layers of social commentary, historical allusions, and compulsive wordplay, transcends family history…. George Elliott Clarke is an extraordinary wordsmith, and so it is no surprise that his prose is often glorious.”
About the Author/作者介绍： GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE的作品包括入选国际IMPAC都柏林文学奖长名单的《George & Rue》、获得加拿大总督文学奖诗歌奖的《Execution Poems》、入围2002年CBC首届Canada Reads竞赛的《Whylah Falls》等。目前是Poet Laureate of Toronto的成员，并在多伦多大学教课。
GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE’s books include George & Rue, longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; Execution Poems, winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry; and Whylah Falls, chosen for CBC’s inaugural Canada Reads competition in 2002. In 2008, he was appointed to the Order of Canada at the rank of Officer. He is currently the Poet Laureate of Toronto, and teaches at the University of Toronto.
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Canada: HarperCollins,February 2, 2016
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