GEORGE AND RUE

Book ID/图书代码： 12760004B07584

English Summary/英文概要： It was 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 skeletons in George Elliott Clarke’s family closet. Both repelled and intrigued by his ancestral cousins’ deeds, which he learned about from his mother shortly before her death, poet, playwright and screenwriter Clarke set out to discover just what kind of forces would reduce men to crime, violence and, ultimately, murder. His findings took shape in the 2001 Governor General’s Award–winning Execution Poems and culminates brilliantly in George and Rue. The novel shifts seamlessly back into the killers’ pasts, recounting a bleak and sometimes comic tale of victims of violence who became killers, a black community too poor and too shamed to assist its downtrodden members, and a white community bent on condemning all blacks as dangerous outsiders.
This is a book about a death that brims with fierce vitality and dark humor. Infused with the sensual, rhythmic beauty that defines Clarke’s writing, here is a literary debut that will be marked by celebration—and controversy.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： “George Elliott Clarke……是世界文坛的聚宝盆。小说的每一页都闪动着令人心碎的才华。”-------Howard Norman
事实很清楚----据说这就是一桩极其丑恶的犯罪。1949年，George 和Rufus两兄弟喝醉了酒，在新伯伦瑞克省的一个肮脏的贫民窟----Barker’s Point----用钝器把一位出租司机活活砸死了。八个之后，两个人都被送上绞刑架。
George和Rue兄弟俩是George Elliott Clarke妈妈的第一代远表兄。尽管这场谋杀行为至今仍弥漫在弗雷德里克顿市的空气中-----而且当地的小镇也因此获得了一个臭名“榔头镇”，但是我们的Clarke先生对于家族史上的这样一见丑事全然不知，直到1994年的时候，他妈妈亲口讲出来之后，他才如梦方醒。Clarke
对祖先们的无耻行径很是义愤填膺，但又强忍不住内心的好奇感，于是他开始着手研究，究竟是什么会让一个人走向犯罪、暴力以及最后的谋杀之路，这样也就有了后来的一本经典诗歌------《极刑之诗》，还有现在的这本引人深思和共鸣的作品------GEORGE & RUE。
《GEORGE & RUE》叙述了一个略带凄凉的黑色幽默，完整地讲述了两位行凶者的过去。暴力的牺牲品原何最后却堕落到暴力的队伍；贫穷、堕落的非裔加拿大社区“Three Mile Plain，Nova Scotia” 显然不足以帮助他们，外人社会不分青红皂白，誓要排斥所有的黑人，认为他们都是危险的局外人。恐怖与极度幽默交织在《GEORGE & RUE》，同时它也有一种世俗和韵律的美感。

Awards/获奖情况："Thanks to Clarke’s elegiac, measured prose, the story achieves the quality of high tragedy." (Alberto Manguel in The Times (London))

THE WINNER OF THE 2001 GOVERNOR GENERAL’S AWARD FOR POETRY BRINGS TO LIFE THE TRUE STORY OF TWO MEN, MEMBERS OF CLARKE’S OWN FAMILY, HANGED FOR MURDER IN 1949

About the Author/作者介绍： GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE is an award-winning poet, playwrightand screenwriter. He is the author of six books of poetry, including WhylahFalls, a 2002 CBC Canada Reads finalist, and Execution Poems, winnerof the 2001 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. Clarke was born in Windsor,Nova Scotia, near the black Loyalist community of Three Mile Plains. He nowlives in Toronto, where he is currently the E. J. Pratt Professor of CanadianLiterature at the University of Toronto, but also owns land in Nova Scotia. Hewas recently awarded the Trudeau Fellowship.

Format:HARDCOVER

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：RIGHTS SOLD: Canada: HarperFlamingo,2005 UK: Random/Harvill, 2005

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