Mr. Spaceman
Robert Olen Butler
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Add to basketSold by The Book Asylum, Blackwood, NJ, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 24 June 2011
Condition: Used - As new
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSigned. Fine/as new condition. Jacket Fine and protected in mylar. Grey and white boards with gold gilt print on spine. Light edge wear. 1st edition; 1st printing. **ADDITIONAL SHIPPING MAY APPLY TO INTERNATIONAL ORDERS** About the book: The night before the turn of the millennium, a tour bus bound for a Louisiana casino is suddenly beamed inside a spaceship hovering high above the Earth's surface. As its twelve passengers emerge nervously from the vehicle, they come face-to-face with the being who has brought them aboard, a sixteen-fingered zoot-suited alien named Desi. Over the course of the next twenty-four hours, Desi will seek their help as he readies himself for the final phase of the mysterious mission he has traveled across the galaxies to fulfill. For decades, Desi has patiently studied the curious primary species of our planet, absorbing human culture from afar and occasionally bringing a chosen few aboard his ship to read their thoughts and experience their emotions with his telepathic powers. Over time, he has come to love Earth's confusing, fascinating, and frustrating inhabitants - and even taken a human wife, a gregarious former hairdresser from Alabama named Edna Bradshaw. Now, to complete his mission, Desi must position his ship in full and irrefutable view of the people of Earth and descend to the planet's surface at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve.
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Butler's narrator is a happy comic creation, a deadpan alien in love with his wife and her fine set of knockers:
There are three things about this planet which are too wonderful for me. Make that four things. The way of dreams in the mind; the way of tears in the eyes; the way of words in the mouth; and the way of my wife Edna Bradshaw when she acts like a cat and lovenibbles me into her arms.In a novel that eludes classification, Butler propels Desi's linguistic struggles, busload of disciples and attempts to plumb the mystery of human yearning to a tight climax as he plans his first public appearance on Earth, which his new followers believe is a second coming. Mr. Spaceman is by turns a fond satire of science fiction, an ode to the South, and an exploration of marital dynamics that's as besotted with detail as any Anne Tyler novel--though the perspective does tilt a little off-centre. --Claire Dederer, Amazon.com
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