The Dark Days Of October

In <I>The Dark Days of October</I> Floyd F. Clark vividly recounts with candor and compassion some of the most painful memories that have left their indelible mark on his life.</p><p>From those poverty-ridden childhood days of the Depression he carries his reader through the struggles of a teenager trying to obtain a quality education in pursuit of his dream--to become a writer or teacher; and of the personal pleasures forfeited in adulthood...as he struggles to cope with the declining health of both parents.</p><p>At times he feels cursed as each somber episode seems linked in some mysterious and reoccurring fashion to the tenth month of the year.</p><p>In recalling these agonizing periods of his personal life Clark sprinkles each with just enough inbred grace and charm to keep the reader's attention in this fast moving intimate story of a tormented soul--strengthened only by an unyielding faith toward a brighter tomorrow.</p>