Last Gas Station
By Tom Clark
1980
First Published
3.37
Average Rating
190
Number of Pages
Tom Clark’s collection of short fiction, The Last Gas Station, is in two contrasting parts. It opens with 23 very short prose pieces––amusingly surreal California vignettes, some no longer than a page, peopled by denim-clad cowgirls, itinerant lover boys, Martin Heidegger, Boris Pasternak, Muslim college students, Vietnam vets, Ty Cobb, Ted Berrigan, and a great dinosaur poet of the Jurassic period. These are followed by the novella “Incident at Basecamp,” an odd matter-of-fact account of a close encounter between a young married couple and a spindly, three-toed, mind-reading extraterrestrial somewhere deep in the Rocky Mountain wilderness.
Avg Rating
3.37
Number of Ratings
19
5 STARS
21%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
47%
2 STARS
11%
1 STARS
5%
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Author
Tom Clark
Author · 10 books
Clark was an American poet, editor and biographer. Clark was educated at the University of Michigan and served as poetry editor of "The Paris Review" from 1963 to 1973 and published numerous volumes of poetry with Black Sparrow Press. His literary essays and reviews have appeared in "The New York Times," "Times Literary Supplement," and many other journals.
