The Ratscape Chronicles - Revised Edition: The Autobiographical Ramblings of an Outcast

by Jennifer Clarke B J (Illustrator), James W Clarke

Overview

An unusual autobiography - funny and sad at the same time. A page turner too!
'Twisting my hand around, I struck like a snake and grabbed! I wish I hadn't. Oh, I wish I hadn't! My hand instantly became an agonised thing of white, blistering fire.'
A social maverick takes to the rural paradise of Shetland and hilarity ensues. Charismatic Jim Clarke and his beloved little rosebud escape an urban hell and settle on a remote croft. Cue for enchanting landscapes, truly amazing people and a cast of animals with which no actor wanting to stay in work should perform!
Revised edition with additional material and copiously illustrated with the author's own pictures and illuminating poetry set within prose that will take your breath away with laughter, this comi-tragic tale of a doomed attempt to escape the rat-race is a magical experience. Its bitter and poetic beginning gives way to a land of rolling hills and wild winds where men are men and women are, well, as big as the men!
Revised version, more pictures, more poems, more fun!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493614653
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	11/23/2013
Series:	The Chronicles of Wetlund
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

Jim Clarke was born on 8th of May 1945 and the Germans immediately surrendered! His life has continued in the same vein. Having studied theology and English and become a youth worker he upped and migrated to the hills, convinced that the cities were about to become unliveable in - and events may yet prove him correct. He writes with a dark edge, seeing the other side of events with clarity. Heroes might include Macbeth, about whom he has written two plays, one set in a medium's parlour, the other in the nearish future, both tales of the not quite expected.
Marriage has been a hobby, and he has four to his credit; he is a firm believer in the institution - well, he'd say, it does institutionalize you unless you are fortunate enough to be anaesthetized first!
When not writing Jim reads, paints abstract expressionist paintings and breeds dogs - the Aylestone Bulldog, known throughout the UK, is his own development. When not doing any of these things then beer is the thing - not fizzy lager but the real, the English, ale, served at room temperature, preferably in a good pub!