Further Adventures
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.
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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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