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Martin Clark (Writer)
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April 12, 2004
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The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living: A Novel 2000)
Meet Evers Wheeling of Norton, North Carolina. A
semidissolute judge, undistracted by children, hobbies, or a fulfilling
marriage, he's moving down the road to nowhere at a furious clip -- until the
morning he's confronted by Ruth Esther English, an attractive young woman
whose dim-witted brother happens to be up on drug charges.
Within days, Evers is the Englishes' reluctant coconspirator, abetted by his
pothead brother Pascal (he of the double-wide trailer) and Pascal's
faux-white-trash cohorts. And his suddenly outlandish life includes an
interstate treasure hunt, a terrible act of marital vengeance, a sleazy
antiques dealer, twice-stolen money, a mysteriously valuable letter, a
baffling murder trial, and a love-interest attorney who considers him the
poster boy for the sexist and racist legal establishment -- not to mention the
alabaster tears miraculously cried by Ruth Esther.
Combining high comedy and existential, even spiritual
compulsion, Martin Clark has converted every risk he's taken into
high-test storytelling that's as fresh as the infant century. --
Amazon.com
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Plain Heathen Mischief (2004)
Talk about a crisis of faith. On the upside, a
solicitous member of Joel's former congregation invites him into a scam
that could yield some desperately needed cash, and soon the
down-on-his-luck preacher is involved with a flock of charming con men,
crooked lawyers and conniving youth.
In a feat of bravura storytelling, Martin Clark ranges
from the cross to the double cross, from Virginia to Las Vegas, from
jail cells to trout streams, as he follows his Job-like hero through
dubious choices and high-dollar insurance hustles to a redemption that
no reader could possible predict. Wildly imaginative, at times comic, at
times profoundly sobering, and even more audacious than his wonderfully
idiosyncratic debut, Plain Heathen Mischief is a spiritual revelation of
the first order.
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