Robert Clark
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Robert Clark
St. Paul, Minnesota, 1939. The body of a beautiful dime-a-dance girl is found on a hillside, and Police Lieutenant Wesley Horner, struggling and alone after his wife’s recent death, heads the investigation into her murder. His chief suspect is Herbert White, an eccentric recluse and hobby photographer who spends his days recording his life in detailed journal entries and scrapbooks. In Mr. White’s Confession, Robert Clark illuminates the complex relationships between truth and fiction, past and present, faith and memory.
My Grandfather's House: A Genealogy of Doubt and Faith
Robert Clark
In My Grandfather’s House, Robert Clark traces the spiritual quests and struggles of his ancestors, from England’s split with the Church of Rome at the end of the middle ages to his own return to the faith five hundred years later. Clark reconstructs their lives as medieval Catholics, heretics, and inquisitors in the England of Henry VII; as Puritan settlers, participants in Indian wars, and accusers in witch trials in New England in the 1600s; as preachers, artists, writers, and agnostics during the theological and intellectual upheavals of the 19th…
