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Paperback Edition
- 978-1-03-917293-7
- 6.0 x 9.0 inches
- Standard Color interior
- 294 pages
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Hardcover Edition
- 978-1-03-917294-4
- 6.0 x 9.0 inches
- Standard Color interior
- 294 pages
- Keywords
- Education,
- Coming of age,
- High school,
- Americana,
- Modern day adventures,
- Public school,
- City life
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Today's Thomas Sawyer
Frank Minetti
by
Butch Arnold
This story begins where it ends, followed by a whimsical search for lucidity. The reader is taken for a particle infused gambol, a continuum circling spacetime. Isolation propels our hero, Thomas Sawyer. Exploring truth in blackholed fiction, our protagonist forages inward, where reflections of self-determined inevitability combine in a frenzy of mockery and contradiction. At lightspeed, redemption illuminates a champion’s folly, a fatuitous glow of expiated observance plucking strings of pity. Quarantined with the loathing of an allegorical cat, Luca, Thomas purrs a sardonic tune toward infinity. Besieged by mirrored worlds and consumed with extinction, haunting figures swirl from Thomas’ backscattering, a fanciful fancy of infantile fantasy, nonsensical nonsense neither fanciful, nor fancy, but fantastic. Every word punctuates an elliptical narrative woven concave toward cosmic salvation. Finally, in the end, childhood friends find reciprocity in a nearby cemetery, where Thomas peddles his last commodity, cashes his final check, and sells his essence for salvation. Simply, the story is the story.
Butch Arnold was born at Deaconess Hospital, in St. Louis, Missouri. An excellent student, Butch graduated with honors from Samuel Clemens High School, where he received a full scholarship to Columbia University. In 1985, Butch moved to New Yok City. During his junior year at Columbia, Butch fell in love with an exotic dancer and dropped out of school. Twenty-three months of homelessness ensued. In the winter of 1991, riding a subway train to Coney Island, Mr. Arnold experienced a moment of clarity. The following day, he enlisted as a merchant marine and spent two years traveling the world. Subsequently, Butch spent three years in India, graduating from the University of Calcutta. Shortly thereafter, he returned to New York City, where Butch became a science teacher at Columbus High School, in The Bronx. Mr. Arnold is currently retired and living in Costa Rica.
Contributors
- Author
- Butch Arnold
