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Steven Clark

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in Bonne Terre, The United States

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Historical Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction

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When did I begin telling stories? Probably when I was a child and, late at night before the blue TV screen (I was born in 1952, so this was in the fifties), Mother was tired of telling me stories so I told her my own as ice tinkled in our tea glasses, and she lay back on the sofa to listen, pillows and blankets nestled around her. She slept on the sofa a lot. it was a tepid marriage.
Before I set pen to paper, a lot of things happened. I did the kid thing. I got an education, went to college for awhile, joined the army and went to Germany. I finished my B.A. at the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 1980, and became, as a bilious old man said to me one night in the shadows of a Civil War re-enactment, another goddamned English major who th ...more

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	The Saint Louisans 2.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Green Path it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Maddening Tune and other stories it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	On Old 67. : A Missouri Memoir 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Steven Clark rated a book really liked it How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes by Cody Cassidy	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I found this in the library while I was between serious, "heavy" books I'm reading, but Cassidy's theme...surviving historical catastrophes...is as heavy as anything. His style is very approachable and while satiric, offers a lot of good pointers and ...more
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Steven Clark rated a book it was ok The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I'm surprised at the amount of reviewers who enjoy Stiefvater's style, because it is a major block to my reading this work. The story promises a lot of unexamined history. Yet another WWII novel, but here dealing with a fancy hotel coping with Axis n ...more
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Steven Clark rated a book it was ok The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I'm surprised at the amount of reviewers who enjoy Stiefvater's style, because it is a major block to my reading this work. The story promises a lot of unexamined history. Yet another WWII novel, but here dealing with a fancy hotel coping with Axis n ...more
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Steven Clark rated a book really liked it So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
"In any case in talking about the past we live, we lie with every breath we draw." A powerful statement from the narrator of this novella where the childhood and adolescence of rural Illinois in the early 20th century is recalled with starkness, sadne ...more
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Steven Clark rated a book liked it The Moonshine Women by Michelle Collins Anderson (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I was fortunate to attend a meeting where Michelle Anderson plugged The Moonshine Women. I noted stylistic parallels with Jetta Carleton's splendid The Moonflower Vine, and Michelle beamed "Yes! I love that book. I'm happy to be compared to her." Mic ...more
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Steven Clark rated a book really liked it The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The Lion Women of Tehran is a story of Homa and Ellie, two Iranian girls who become friends, and their lives...Ellie's semi-middle class existence and Homa's slum life are background for a study of Iran from the 1950's to 2022. It recalls Maeve Binch ...more
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Steven Clark rated a book liked it Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The story is not what you think it WILL be...the building of a cathedral or a momentous death of the leading character; Cather offers something different, which is a study of a land, faith, people, and how La Tour and Valiant, two French clergymen, d ...more
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Steven Clark rated a book did not like it The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I have read of racial changeover books before. Updike did a retake of the Tristan/Isolde story in Brazil. For fun, there is Stefan Heym's The Wachsmuth syndrome, where men start turning into women. Actually pretty funny. My problem with Hamid's try is ...more
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Steven Clark rated a book liked it Sam Weskit on the Planet Framingham by William Johnston	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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