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...Clarke??s death marks the end of one of the most influential careers in the genre. Clarke began his career in the 1930s penning short stories for magazines. Even after being confined to a wheelchair due to post-polio syndrome, the prolific author continued to write. His final novel, “The Last Theorem,” was completed just days before his death...
...Perhaps his most humorous story concerns Robert Clarke, “a young and promising Civilian in Kashmir.” The strapping young man became romantically involved with Mrs. George Howard, the widow of the chaplain from the Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment. Clarke??s problems, however, stem from his relationship with Mrs. Howard’s daughter who was “decidedly big for her age and very good looking...
...stories, like Clarke??s, are relatively interesting and Gilmour has a fresh wit about him that is matter-of-factly appropriate...
...nine-handed clocks is like a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down. But it’s also like, well, life. Although Rowling’s plot has been, for the most part, mapped out since 1997—she forecasted danger before even Richard Clarke??she says she writes each book fresh as she goes, so it’s fair to call this what it is: post-9/11 fiction at its best...
...Magnificent and original” raves the Washington Post about Clarke??s debut novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, which has been both critically acclaimed and publicly adored. See her read from it at this event at the Harvard Book Store. Free and open to the public. Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. Harvard Book Store...