Superannuated Man - Couverture souple

Buchignani, Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798223955825

Editeur : Mark Buchignani, 2022

Synopsis

For his swan-song, protagonist and narrator Professor Theodore Allenby Marsters takes on the hot button topic of bias - prejudice and unfairness in an array of forms, some overlooked in the mainstream. In particular, Marsters finds himself facing mandatory retirement. As a result, he crafts the course to emphasize elder bias, drawing examples from personal experience, while in counterpoint demonstrating his own societal value by befriending elders and establishing a program to buoy the spirits of children who have contracted leukemia.

The wildcard is Anacostia Monroe, a young woman and older sister of one of Marsters’s students. Unbeknownst to him, she has orchestrated their meeting, mutual fascination, and subsequent physical entanglement in support of her own learning opportunity and as preparation for her future married (not to him) life. Her plans are upstaged when the professor exceeds the stuffy impression he typically reflects, and she realizes he has graduated from test subject to love interest. These events lead to her older brother beating him down, decrying their age difference. She nurses him back to health, but despite their increasing closeness ultimately decides she must leave him in favor of her fiancé. After she departs, he wonders: was she real or a figment of a lonely old man’s imagination? This question inhabits the denouement, which itself establishes the foundation for the remainder of his life.

One hundred and two thousand words.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

An avid reader of literary fiction, fantasy, and science fiction, Mark Buchignani has more ‘favorite' authors than he can count, among them George R. Stewart, John Wain, Martin Amis, John Steinbeck, Margaret Atwood, Nicholson Baker, Richard Flanagan… The tip of the iceberg.  Novels of my own began spilling out in 2005, resulting in, among others, MTee’s Lament, a twist on a post-apocalyptic tale.  Many more narratives followed.  Some are published here; others languish behind "fair use" entanglements.

My stuff tends toward societal commentary, presented via normal people who find themselves in unexpected, offbeat, or abnormal circumstances - circumstances replete with threatened or actual upheaval.  The choices these folks make move the action forward and expose brokenness in the culture and in the actors themselves.

I’m also a huge Tolkien fan and have written volume one of a loosely-planned five-book set: The Recitation of Ooon.  Though in the same genre as Lord the Rings, Ooon is definitely not Middle Earth, and there are no Hobbits.  Just people trying to find their way while engulfed in a magical upheaval driven by a clash between followers of the ancient ways and those seeking a new, less-fettered life.  The narrator is a thousand-year-old man, trying to see forward, while looking back, as his existence comes to a pre-destined end.

And I have devoured everything Theodore Sturgeon and quite a bit of old school SF.  Though I have yet to draft anything within this genre, ideas continually percolate.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mark Buchignani
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798223955825
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 340
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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