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Tom Sinclair
Tom Sinclair is a senior writer for EW and has been called "the handsomest man in rock criticism'' (by his wife)
This haunting first novel recalls Goethe's dictum that one must be either ''hammer or anvil.'' It's 1949 in Nova Scotia, and when the two tragically hapless African-Canadian brothers, George & Rue, who give the book its title fatally bludgeon a taxi driver with a hammer, their fate as anvils is forever sealed. That the story is based on true events — the real-life brothers were George Elliott Clarke's cousins — makes this heartbreaking and beautifully rendered extrapolation all the more poignant.
Posted Jan 06, 2006
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