"Arguably the funniest legal thriller ever written - a book
that makes Clark seem like not only the thinking man's John Grisham
but, maybe better, the drinking man's John Grisham." --New
York Times Magazine
"...this wildly imaginative novel will be an instant classic."
--Book-of-the-Month Club
"...a fun, satisfying and unconventional first effort. Just
north of Southern Gothic, just south of John Grisham, a few degrees
to port of the supernatural." --Washington Post
"...one of the funniest stories in recent years... a stimulating
and thoughtful joy to inhale. Clark has a wonderful ear for dialogue
and a[n]...imaginative and reliable eye for powerful metaphors."
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"...plenty of mirth. As well as wild inventiveness, a stubborn
investigation of faith, and a
wonderful openness to the miraculous. Let's hope that Martin Clark's
day job as a circuit court judge doesn't keep him away from the
word processor too long." --New Orleans Times-Picayune
"Mobile Home Living bristles with compelling courtroom scenes,
plot twists, true-to-life characters from society's jagged edge,
country music and a gambler's sense of risk." --Richmond
Times-Dispatch
"Part John Grisham, part Hunter S. Thompson and part sheer
grit, Clark's first novel is admirable in its ability to propel
the reader through implausible plot twists and turns to a point
where we feel we've agreeably shared [a trip] with Judge Evers Wheeling..."
--Denver Post
"...Vivid and convincing...Clark sashays in...and delivers
the goods. The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living is a guilty pleasure
of an altogether different kind. Call it an illegal thriller."
--New York Times
"...made me laugh so hard I fell off the sofa." --Newsweek
"...so fresh and original that it will make most of the other
books you've read lately seem like uninspired clones...the number
one book to read this summer when you really want to be amused and
entertained. Read this book and savor that rare thing, a uniquely
creative story." --Winston-Salem Journal
"Clark has that ability to spin an eccentric yarn that seems
to be a dominate genetic trait below the Mason-Dixon Line."
--Boston Globe
"...readers...gasp at the epiphany at the end...the world has
taken on order, the air is fresher, the sun beats down less harshly
and love triumphs in a most human way." --Virginia
Lawyers Weekly
"An enthralling mix of Southern Gothic excess and legal procedure..."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Readers will find themselves willingly drawn along, charmed
by the story's idiosyncrasies, and surprised by the reversals and
coincidences of Clark's peculiar brand of story telling." --Arizona
Daily Star
"In Clark's... landscape, nothing is as it seems, lust is color-blind
and murder most weird becomes the main course. Clark sprinkles in
ample samplings of Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard and John Kennedy
Toole, but his mindset is purely original." --The
Jackson Mississippi Clarion-Ledger
"Highly enjoyable reading that is fast-moving and full of belly
laughs." --Library Journal
"The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living delivers a ripping
good yarn. Threading elements of jurisprudence, mysticism and mystery,
Clark has produced a novel that is complex and compelling."
--Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
"Outrageous...Exceedingly charming...You can climb aboard assured
that the author is going to take you for a good ride [with] a deadpan,
demotic prose style in which outrageous events and jokes reach their
maximum amusement and poignancy for being so simply stated."
--Baltimore Sun
"It captures the wonderful peculiarities of one man's world
gone temporarily awry...Add to this wonderful scenario and likable
ensemble of characters a twice-stolen bundle of money, an interstate
treasure hunt, a mysterious, clue-filled letter, a murder trial
and a surprise last-minute confession, and the stage is set for
a subtly satiric jab at just about every socio-economic group that
stands in the way of the novel's careening plot." --Greensboro
News and Record
"...a witty, picaresque character study...funny yet profound
observations emerge with graceful ease...a fine book and promising
debut." --Charleston Gazette-Mail
"This is truly a new voice, with a wildly original story to
tell." --Oxford American
"...Clark's writing is excellent. The book should make great...reading
for anyone interested in a very funny, fast-paced thriller with
some of the most intriguing characters to be found anywhere."
--San Antonio Express-News
"Aside from having the best title I've heard in years, Martin
Clark's The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living is a wonderfully
unique read, charming and funny and touching and twisted, as fresh
and tart as a perfect martini. I was crazy about it." --James
Crumley
"This is a grand, rumbling ride through the world of Evers
Wheeling and wild company. Clark's novel is without restraint and
perhaps without precedent, unless we consider another man with a
mission, Ignatius J. Reilly, juggling a steady job, a perpetual
hangover, and a fleet of outstanding weirdos. If I did not live
such a sheltered existence, this is the book I'd love to write."
--Kaye Gibbons
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