George & Rue
Record details
- ISBN: 9781443406567 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1443406562 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource - Publisher: [Toronto, Ontario] : HarperCollins Canada, 2011.
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Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from EPUB title page (OverDrive viewed, October 3, 2013). |
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Subject: | Hamilton, George -- -1949 -- Fiction Hamilton, Rufus -- -1949 -- Fiction Blacks -- Fiction Murder -- Fiction Brothers -- Fiction New Brunswick -- Fiction Blacks Brothers Murder New Brunswick |
Genre: | Electronic books. Fiction. |
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Summary:
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.