Black River - Clarke, Mark A

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Résumé :
Black River is a collection of humorous and enchanting short stories, simple and straightforward. They narrate the sometimes amusing lives of hardy, resilient people residing in the Adirondacks and the spirited river that flows through it.

Biographie:
Mark A. Clarke grew up in Upstate New York. Enlisting in the United States Army during the Vietnam War, he served in an Airborne Infantry Regiment in Europe. Mark earned a bachelor's degree in English Education at SUNY Oswego, a master's degree at Saint Rose and post graduate studies in a PhD program at Syracuse University. Studying Anglo-American literature for a semester in London, he met and discussed the works of Kingsley Amis, Ruth Fainlight and Gordon M. Williams. Mark taught for more than thirty years in a public school in Columbia County, where he met his wife.