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Adventurists & Other Stories

by Richard Butner
Adventurists & Other Stories

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ISBN13: 9781618731944
ISBN10: 1618731947
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Remember that time at the mall, when you looked down the service hallway and someone was there and you fell in love with them, and when you looked again they were gone? When you found a tunnel under an old building and couldn't resist going in?

There are things buried here. You might want to save them. You might want to get out of their way. The rules are always clear but never fully known in Richard Butner's stories. Sometimes a door will open into a new world, sometimes into the past. Putting on a costume might be the restart you are half hoping for. There are ghost stories without ghosts, time travel without machinery, punks and hippies living together in peace but not harmony.

With a close eye on the furniture of our daily lives and a calm but not detached vision of the multiple selves carried within each person, Butner's allusive and elusive, nostalgic and modernist stories reach into the uncanny corners of life -- where there are no job losses, just HCAPs (Head Count Allocation Procedures), where a tree might talk to just one person, where Death's Fool is not to be ignored.

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"Flawless. . . . Readers of John Crowley, Ray Bradbury, and Sally Rooney alike will find a
home."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Remember that time at the mall, when you looked down the service hallway and someone was there and you fell in love with them, and when you looked again they were gone? When you found a tunnel under an old building and couldn't resist going in?

There are things buried here. You might want to save them. You might want to get out of their way. The rules are always clear but never fully known in Richard Butner's stories. Sometimes a door will open into a new world, sometimes into the past. Putting on a costume might be the restart you are half hoping for. There are ghost stories without ghosts, time travel without machinery, punks and hippies living together in peace but not harmony.

With a close eye on the furniture of our daily lives and a calm but not detached vision of the multiple selves carried within each person, Butner's allusive and elusive, nostalgic and modernist stories reach into the uncanny corners of life -- where there are no job losses, just HCAPs (Head Count Allocation Procedures), where a tree might talk to just one person, where Death's Fool is not to be ignored.

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"Flawless. . . . Readers of John Crowley, Ray Bradbury, and Sally Rooney alike will find a home."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)


Remember the girl you once knew, the theater kid? Now she's become the Queen, and you might need to rescue her. There's the historic house, where someone once saw a ghost and you almost fell in love. An ornithopter hangs in the lobby of your corporate workplace: your co-worker thinks he might be able to operate it. Once you found a tunnel under your old high school, and couldn't resist going to see where it led.

Sometimes a door will open into a new world, sometimes into the past. Putting on a costume might be the restart you are half hoping for. There are things buried here. You might want to save them. You might want to get out of the way.

Butner's allusive and elusive stories reach into the uncanny corners of life--where there are no job losses, just HCAPs (Head Count Allocation Procedures), where a tree might talk to just one person, where Death's Fool is not to be ignored.


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Publication date:
03/01/2022
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5.50IN
Author:
Richard Butner

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