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Overview

From golden age radio heroism to the dusty edge of the New Mexico desert, one aging defender refuses to surrender his ideals.

A classic rediscovered: Further Adventures is Jon Stephen Fink's wildly original, uproarious novel of superheroes and survival, now available for the first time in a briefer, tighter, "director's cut."

Fink drops his retired protagonist, former 1930s radio crime-fighter Ray Green, into the dusty borderlands of 1980s New Mexico, where a town blackout propels the seventy-three-year-old into a raw street rescue.

Moving across the Southwest border, the narrative surrounds Green with armed citizens patrols, a ruthless federal agent, and the lingering echoes of his studio past.

A novel that presaged works like Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Further Adventures is the unforgettable story of one man's half-blind but wholehearted attempt to right the wrongs of a society gone astray.

  • Dual Timeline: Alternating between the 1989 New Mexico borderlands and the golden age broadcast booths of the Liberty Broadcasting Company, the story contrasts high-flying superhero fiction with messy human frailty.
  • Unreliable Narrator: Now in his seventies, Ray Green recounts his bizarre crusade through rambling kitchen-table confessions, eccentric scientific theories, and an unshakeable faith in his own righteous calling.
  • Satire: Corporate cereal sponsorships, promotional plastic statuettes, and disillusioned radio scribes collide with modern border conspiracies in an incisive send-up of American mythmaking.
  • Action Adventure: Behind the wheel of a battered 1963 Ford Country Squire station wagon, the former Green Ray navigates classified ads, runaway teenagers, and high-speed desert escapes.
  • Also by This Author: A Storm in the Blood.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780061715433
  • ISBN-10: 0061715433
  • Publisher: Harper Perennial
  • Publish Date: October 2009
  • Dimensions: 8.04 x 6.52 x 0.89 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.61 pounds
  • Page Count: 368

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