The Clarkl Soup Kitchens [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Mary Carmen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 27, 2004

Clarkl is a planet of cold days and even colder nights. Although Clarkl's star is not visible from Earth, Clarkl's advanced technology allows its natives to visit Earth and take Earthlings back to Clarkl for work.In the early 2070s, the American government entered into a contract with the people of Clarkl to manage and staff farms and kitchens to feed some of the large numbers of Clarkl natives who are faced with the planet's ever-present famine. The American government received certain critical minerals from Clarkl, and the Clarklians received the services of farmers and cooks.This novel presents the diaries of five Americans who went to Clarkl for work in the dining rooms. They left troubling problems on Earth to go to Clarkl for a guaranteed monthly income and a decade of hard work.The diaries discuss the ugly Clarkl natives, with all seven sexes described. Three imaginative illustrations by Lance Jackson show these natives. Carmen, MaryTHE CLARKL SOUP KITCHENSAuthorHouse (277 pp.)November 2004ISBN: 1-4184-8031-2 The cold planet of Clarkl, a place of .few comforts and extensive famine,. serves as thebackdrop for this humorous, pseudo-allegorical tale.Clarkl is the last-ditch option for the rag-tag recruits of two competing Christian missionary groups in the late-21st century.at least one of which consists of disgraced Catholic prelates.who run a food-for-uranium exchange between Earth and Clarkl. Carmen.s darkly comic saga of interspecies miscommunication is told through the diaries of four Clarkl enlistees who have little interest in Christianity and even less understanding of the hungry creatures for whom they must constantly cook. They are middle-aged, greedy, needy, and unnervingly selfabsorbed, showing very little interest in the fantastic landscape in which they live and work. Though they are on the strangest planet in the galaxy, they remain only mildly curious about Clarkl and the mysterious lives of its inhabitants. In short, they are the ugly, xenophob

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About the Author

Mary Carmen is a management consultant based near Cheyenne, Wyoming. She manages projects for information technology departments of large financial and governmental organizations, traveling from engagement to engagement with a Russian Blue cat, Fyodor.Ms. Carmen has worked as a computer programmer, programming department manager, systems analyst, and technical writer. Before studying computer programming, Ms. Carmen taught English in a public school in Georgia in the year that school integrated. Ms. Carmen received a B.A. degree in journalism from Pennsylvania State University and an M.B.A. degree from St. Mary's College of California.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: AuthorHouse; illustrated edition edition (October 27, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1418480304
• ISBN-13: 978-1418480301
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,510,119 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)