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.
- ISBN10 0876854560
- ISBN13 9780876854563
- Publish Date 17 July 1980
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 3 March 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher David R. Godine Publisher Inc
- Imprint Black Sparrow Press,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English