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Michael Kent

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Fiction, Travel, Memoir

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Fielding, Maupassant, Baudelaire, Salinger, Tom Wolfe, Charles Bukowsk ...more

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Michael Kent was born in 1958, a little west of Paris, France. His father was an American journalist whose poetry received praise from Ezra Pound; and his mother, an Australian, was an accomplished chef who liked Beethoven.
A writer, artist, musician, Kent published Les Maléfices du fardeau d'Atlas, his first book of poetry in 1985. He has written five novels, including THE BIG JIGGETY (Xlibris, 2005), POP THE PLUG (Xlibris, 2012) and ALL OF THE NIGHT (Xlibris, 2015) Also, a number of short stories. He has published verse in English and in French. Other writings (and, on occasion, art work) have found a niche in Happy, Kinesis, The Quill, The Urban Age, Voie Express USA, The Threshold, The Writer's Round Table and Moscow's renowned Inostran ...more

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Average rating: 4.62 · 37 ratings · 14 reviews · 4 distinct works

	The Big Jiggety: Or the Return of the Kind of American 4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pop the Plug: The Sort of American Returns 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All of the Night: Novel No. 3 An Albert Nostran Episode it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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On November 28th the President opined on climate change: 'I don't see it.' A more assertive pronouncement compared to his now infamous "Maybe he did, maybe he didn't" (in reference to Mohammed bin Salman's alleged involvement in the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi). Sadly, predictably, even vetted, high caliber government scientists failed to convince the Commander-in-Chief. Bu Read more of this blog post »

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