{"product_id":"the-adventurists-and-other-stories-9781618731944","title":"The Adventurists: And Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Flawless. . . . Readers of John Crowley, Ray Bradbury, and Sally Rooney alike will find a home.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRemember 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eButner'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Small Beer Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/22\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781618731944\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/08\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/27\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2022 pg. 51\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Richard Butner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41574748389557,"sku":"9781618731944","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_3dbf5a38-55c1-4033-9729-863f8f18c94e.jpg?v=1643698743","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-adventurists-and-other-stories-9781618731944","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}