Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain

Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain
Author Jeffrey Moore
Country Canada
Language English
Publisher Thistledown Press
Publication date
29 Nov 1999
Media type Print
Pages 345
Awards Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (2000)
ISBN 1-895449-92-8

Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain (also published as Red-Rose Chain[1]) is the first novel by Canadian author Jeffrey Moore[2] it won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in 2000, and has been translated into a dozen different languages.

Plot Introduction

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.

Reception

References

  1. www.amazon.ca Retrieved 2015-09-25.
  2. Moore, Jeffrey. Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain. Saskatoon: Thistledown Press, 1999.
  3. Moher, Frank. “Yo! Canajon Fiction, Mon.” National Post, 25 March 2000: 9.
  4. Bartley, Jim. "review of Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain. Globe and Mail. 15 April 2000: R2.
  5. Love's labour's literary, The Telegraph, 21 Jul 2002 Retrieved 2015-09-25.
  6. Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1st, 2002 Retrieved 2015-09-25.

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