Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain
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| Author | Jeffrey Moore |
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| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Thistledown Press |
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29 Nov 1999 |
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| Pages | 345 |
| Awards | Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (2000) |
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Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain (also published as Red-Rose Chain) is the first novel by Canadian author Jeffrey Moore it won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in 2000, and has been translated into a dozen different languages.
The novel chronicles the peregrinations of its love-obsessed picaresque hero, Jeremy Davenant, as he moves from York to Toronto to Montreal’s “Plateau district” and then back to York in pursuit of a destiny, that he believes is determined by a page ripped from an encyclopedia, which includes a university career based on a bogus PhD with a plagiarized thesis on the apocryphal Shakespeare play, A Yorkshire Tragedy, and the intermittently requited love of his “dark lady,” a Roma named Milena.
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