Freewheeling - Clark, Tom Foran
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"It was like being Peter Pan, flying around," our book begins. In "Freewheeling: The Collected Stories" the author gives a clear nod and tip of the hat also to the picaresque works of Kerouac, Pirsig, Bellow, Cervantes, and Rabelais. Here are the adventures of two young vagabonds, Emery and Pike. "Pike had made a plan," the story goes. "He was going to ride a bike south through Spain to Morocco, then east across North Africa to Italy. Emery proposes, "I'll join you if you do it backwards" - from northern Italy south to Sicily and on to Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Spain. Going to Crete had…mehr

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"It was like being Peter Pan, flying around," our book begins. In "Freewheeling: The Collected Stories" the author gives a clear nod and tip of the hat also to the picaresque works of Kerouac, Pirsig, Bellow, Cervantes, and Rabelais. Here are the adventures of two young vagabonds, Emery and Pike. "Pike had made a plan," the story goes. "He was going to ride a bike south through Spain to Morocco, then east across North Africa to Italy. Emery proposes, "I'll join you if you do it backwards" - from northern Italy south to Sicily and on to Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Spain. Going to Crete had come as an afterthought. They'd actually believed they would never see each other again.
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Tom Foran Clark, a native Californian born in Burbank, went to public schools, completed his undergraduate studies in Logan, Utah, and graduate studies in Boston, Massachusetts. He has also lived in New Hampshire, Western Massachusetts, France, and Germany. Beyond his writing and vagabonding, Clark has worked, variously over the years, as a graphic artist and copy editor in advertising firms, as a quality assurance engineer for assorted eBooks and marketing firms and, occasionally, off and on, as a public library director. Long a bookman, he has for many years been the proprietor of the online bookstore The Bungalow Shop. Clark is the author of The Significance of Being Frank, a biography of Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, the 19th century Concord, Massachusetts schoolteacher, radical abolitionist, and chronicler and biographer of the lives and times of John Brown, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau. Clark is also the author of another collection of stories, The House of Great Spirit, and the novel Jacob's Papers.