Jaime Clarke

Vernon Downs Jaime Clarke

Marc Notes: Charlie Martens is desperate for stability in an otherwise peripatetic life. An explosion that killed his parents when he was young robbed him of normalcy and he was shuttled from relative to relative, left alone to decipher the world he encountered in order to cobble together an answer as to how he would live. Ever the outcast, Charlie recognises in Olivia, an international student from London, the sense of otherness he feels and their relationship seems to promise salvation. But when Olivia abandons him, his desperate mind fixates on her favourite writer, Vernon Downs, who becomes an emblem for reunion with Olivia. Charlie's quest takes him from Phoenix to New York City and when chance brings him into proximity to Vernon Downs, he quickly ingratiates himself into Downs's world. Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/27/2014 (EAN 9780985881221, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Clarke, Jaime Jaime Clarke is a graduate of the University of Arizona and holds an MFA from Bennington College. He is the author of the previous novel "We're" "So Famous"; editor of the anthologies "Don't You Forget" "About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John" "Hughes", "Conversations with Jonathan Lethem", and "Talk" "Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers"; and co-editor of the anthologies "No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite" "Work from "Post Road ? Magazine "(with Mary Cotton) and "Boston" "Noir 2: The Classics "(with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton). He is a founding editor of the literary magazine "Post Road", now published at Boston College, and co-owner, with his wife, of Newtonville Books, an independent bookstore in Boston.