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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 liked it Hail to the Chin: Further Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell	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 know Bruce Campbell mostly from his work on Xena, and admit The Evil Dead, his meal ticket to fame, never appealed to me as I don't like horror, but his descriptions of making it, living with it, and the world of moviemaking are quite enjoyable. Ca ...more
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Steven Clark rated a book liked it The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan (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 always like the English view of things, and I enjoyed Ruth Hogan's style and a plot of lost things that Anthony Peardew, the owner of Padua, collects and makes stories of them. Laura, his housekeeper, inherits the house and the stories. It's all ve ...more
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Steven Clark rated a book liked it The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3) by Philip Roth	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've always admired Phillip Roth's writing, although The Human Stain left me cold at times. Coleman Silk, his protagonist, is not likable, and his story is one of a man made by fabrication and artifice; like the silk worm's thread that weaves cloth, ...more
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Steven Clark rated a book liked it Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller	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 read this as part of my book club and enjoyed thi mem0ir and Ms. Fuller's recollections of life in Africa. I found it a well-remembered and poignant life of a girl and her family; supposedly upper class compared to the black Africans around them, b ...more
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Steven Clark rated a book liked it Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple	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 title of Maria Semple's first novel got my attention, and I had devoured Today Will Be Different, her funny and brilliant second novel so I had to see what number one was like. It is a good book, but has a lot of bumps that Semple ironed out in T ...more
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Steven Clark rated a book really liked it The Understudy by Morgan Richter (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 Understudy deals with Kit, an opera singer ready to make a great debut in Barbarella, an opera based on a 60's sci-fi film; weird and offbeat, but Kit is ready to sink into it, but so is Yolanda, a quirky and eventually venomous understudy who se ...more
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Unsettled Ground is a strong and probing read for me, as it deals in simple matters of earth, family, and memory, but Claire Fuller is a master gardener of description and emotions. The story deals with Julius and Jeanie, twins who live with their mo ...more
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Steven Clark rated a book liked it Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott by Louisa May Alcott	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 curious about discovering the Louisa May Alcott who crept away from her usual domestic stories of women and girls to enter darker studies of human nature. Alcott admitted she didn't necessarily like the "pap", but it paid well. In Behind a Mask ...more
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Steven Clark rated a book really liked it Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf	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
Our Souls at Night deals with night thoughts that turn daylight as Addie, a lonely older woman, goes to Louis, a similarly aged man, and asks her to come to bed with him. It's the dream so many teenage boys dream and fantasize over, but Addie isn't i ...more
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