The Motorcyclist

Just start your engine. Go. Carl Black is an intellectual and an artist, a traveller and an unapologetic womanizer. A motorcyclist. He burns for the bohemian life, but is trapped in a railway worker''s prosaic--and at times humiliating--existence. Set in 1959 in and around Halifax, Nova Scotia, the novel vividly recounts Carl''s travels and romantic exploits as he tours the backroads of the East Coast and courts a bevy of beautiful women. The Motorcyclist is a portrait of a black working-class man caught between the expectations of his time 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.

Product details

• Authors: George Elliott Clarke
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9781443445146
• ISBN: 978-1-4434-4514-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: FICTION: General, 2016;2017;2018