Plain Heathen Mischief

Plain Heathen Mischief

Of The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living, Martin Clarkâ€™s first novel, the New York Times Book Review wrote, â€œLike Nick Hornby in High Fidelity and Thomas McGuane in Nothing But Blue Skies, Clark has produced an oddly stirring portrait of a man in existential disarray.â€ Whichâ€“noted Malcolm Jones in Newsweekâ€“â€œmade me laugh so hard I fell off the sofa.â€

Plain Heathen Mischief ups the existential ante, as Joel King, a defrocked Baptist minister, finds life even more bedeviling once heâ€™s served six months for a career-ending crime he might not even have committed. Now his incommunicado wife wants a divorce, the teenage vixen of his disgrace is suing him for a cool $5 million, a fresh start in Montana offers no hope for ex-cons of any religious persuasion, and the refuge provided by his sister turns as nasty as his parole officer.

Talk about a crisis of faith. On the upside, a solicitous member of Joelâ€™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 possibly 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.

Country	USA
Author	Martin Clark
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9781400040964
Edition	First Edition
ISBN	1400040965
Label	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	416
PublicationDate	2004-04-27
Publisher	Knopf
ReleaseDate	2004-04-27
SKU	4624
Studio	Knopf

Plain Heathen Mischief

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