{"id":754,"date":"2020-12-04T21:29:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T21:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/?page_id=754"},"modified":"2020-12-08T14:20:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T14:20:05","slug":"advanced-praise","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/advanced-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"Advance Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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A novel crafted with intricate straight lines and curves, like a boat. A mystery that\u2019s also about lake lore, boats, engines, fishing \u2014 and about men, what they talk about and what they don\u2019t, about vanishing acts, New England religion, and the unpredictable consequences of revenge. Take a ride with Sam Clark\u2019s sure hand guiding you through time and space and detection in the environs of Lake Champlain!<\/p>

-Dick Cluster, author of Return to Sender,<\/i> and other novels in the Alex Glauberman mystery series.<\/p>

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Evidence of intelligence and emotional complexity is everywhere in the characters Sam Clark has created for his unusually constructed and sophisticated mystery,\u00a0The Inland Sea<\/i>.\u00a0 An assortment of re-built boats skim across a lake bordered by forest and farm, carrying readers between islands, slamming waves, treacherous rocks, and the unpredictable currents of human capability. Designed with a craftsperson\u2019s care and a philosopher\u2019s depth,\u00a0The Inland Sea\u00a0<\/i>covers a lot of territory.<\/p>

Judith Chalmer, author of two books of poetry,\u00a0Out of History\u2019s Junk Jar<\/i>, and most recently,\u00a0Minnow<\/i><\/p>

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\u201cI love this book. Religion, in all its bizarre, ominous, American permutations, pulses in this mystery like the springs that feed into a lake.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

\u2013<\/b>Jon M. Sweeney,\u00a0author of\u00a0The Pope Who Quit<\/i>, optioned by HBO<\/p>

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Like his Detective Fred Davis, Sam Clark likes to take his time. Both the investigator and the author are after the details, whether of boats, intricate waterways, the varieties of Vietnamese cuisine, or above all the people they encounter in the course of the investigation. Together, through Davis\u2019 meticulous dedication and Clark\u2019s clear, precise prose, they unpack the case of a strange killing in the intriguing landscape of the Inland Sea.\u201d<\/p>

-NYT Notable Book novelist Larry Duberstein (The Handsome Sailor, The Marriage Hearse)<\/p>

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\u201cPart police procedural and part mystery,\u00a0The Inland Sea<\/em>\u00a0deftly weaves together past and present, drawing us in to the lives of men at home on the waterways of Lake Champlain. As Detective Fred Davis searches for clues to a murder victim\u2019s secret past, he is forced to confront his own sense of loss and loneliness. Sam Clark\u2019s debut novel tells the tantalizing tale of men yearning for authentic lives, defying the expectations of family and a community defined by the pull of the Inland Sea.\u201d<\/p>

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Advance Praise A novel crafted with intricate straight lines and curves, like a boat. A mystery that\u2019s also about lake lore, boats, engines, fishing \u2014 and about men, what they talk about and what they don\u2019t, about vanishing acts, New England religion, and the unpredictable consequences of revenge. Take a ride with Sam Clark\u2019s sure… Read More »Advance Praise<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-pagebuilder-full-width.php","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"full-width","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"on","neve_meta_content_width":100,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-754","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/754\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samclarkdesign.com\/inlandsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}