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The motorcyclist / George Elliott Clarke.
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.
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- ISBN: 9781443445139
- ISBN: 9781443445146
- Physical Description: x, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016.
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| Salmo Public Library | FIC CLA (Text) | 35163000118948 | Adult Fiction (hardback or trade paperback) | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Castlegar Public Library | FIC CLA (Text) | 35146001950286 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fort St. John Public Library | AF CLA (Text) | 35211000311813 | ADULT Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Hudson's Hope Public Library | FIC FIC CLA (Text) | BHH045197 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Kitimat Public Library | Cla (Text) | 32665002026427 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Nelson Public Library | F CLA (Text) | 3514830023157 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Pemberton and District Public Library | F CLA (Text) | 31894000445063 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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