Robert Clark, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (354p) ISBN 978-0-7679-2648-5
The Arno River flood that deluged Florence, Italy, in 1966—killing 33 people and damaging 14,000 works of art and countless books and antiques—frames this meditation on the relationship between art and life. Clark (River of the West
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Robert Clark, Author . Norton $24.95 (333p) ISBN 978-0-393-02015-1
Edgar Award–winner Clark (Mr. White's Confession) abandons the psychological murder mystery genre of his earlier work to plumb the emotional depths and dangers of young love and mature infidelity in this literary fiction set in 1968...
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Robert Clark, Author HarperCollins Publishers $27.5 (357p) ISBN 978-0-06-016763-9
More a chronicle of the modern American food industry than a portrait of the country's preeminent foodie, this biography, like a banquet without a main course, suffers from the lack of Beard's palpable presence. Born in Portland, Ore., in 1903 to a...
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Robert Clark, Author Picador USA $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-15149-2
In this chivalric sequel to her medieval saga Devoted, Borchardt returns to ninth-century France and the city of Chantalon, where the bishop, Owen, and his wife, Elin, confront Viking raids and treachery as they try to bring peace to their people....
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Robert Clark, Author Picador USA $15 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-16987-9
The novelist and biographer chronicles the Northwest river's collision with American history. (Oct.)
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Robert Clark, Author Picador USA $24 (341p) ISBN 978-0-312-19217-4
By opening with a long epigraph from St. Augustine's Confessions (in the original Latin, no less), Clark's ambitious, atmospheric rumination on good, evil and the gray area in between announces intentions far loftier than those of the standard dime-s
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Photos by Robert Clark, text by Joseph Wallace. Phaidon, $39.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7148-7118-9
This art-as-science book by National Geographic photographer Clark (Feathers: Displays of Brilliant Plumage) is more a haphazard, if attractive, celebration of biodiversity than a study of evolution through living creatures. Broad categories—insects,
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Robert Clark. Goose Lane (UTP, dist.), $22.95 trade paper (277p) ISBN 978-0-86492-969-3
Clark’s honest insider’s review of the Canadian federal prison system, which draws on his 30-year career from guard to deputy warden, is a clarion call responding to the growing prevalence of U.S.-style incarceration practices. It’s also a rare...
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Robert Clark. University of Texas Press, $45 (192p) ISBN 978-1-4773-2119-5
This impressive illustrated volume revisits Clark’s photography that accompanied Buzz Bissinger’s bestselling Friday Night Lights (1990), about Texas high school football. Twenty photos appeared in that volume, and here Clark selects additional...
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