Hollowmen - Maxwell, Susan
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"It seems to me-and I no longer claim objective recall-that the morning on which I first arrived in Quettopolis looked much like this morning just breaking. One year ago. I was right at least that it was my last job." The Moufet Institute's mission is to protect endangered lepidoptera, but its experts are becoming bystanders, sidelined by the 'Players' and their pursuit of corporate self-perpetuation. Cuffe, recruited to create the rhetoric to underpin the new corporate vision, finds her inital confidence eroded by the peculiarities of the Institute and its environment-the punitive process…mehr

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"It seems to me-and I no longer claim objective recall-that the morning on which I first arrived in Quettopolis looked much like this morning just breaking. One year ago. I was right at least that it was my last job." The Moufet Institute's mission is to protect endangered lepidoptera, but its experts are becoming bystanders, sidelined by the 'Players' and their pursuit of corporate self-perpetuation. Cuffe, recruited to create the rhetoric to underpin the new corporate vision, finds her inital confidence eroded by the peculiarities of the Institute and its environment-the punitive process with its absent defendant, the disregarded but omnipotent Registry, the quarterly Hunt, the Forest as it re-asserts itself. Then the Institute is galvanised by the discovery of a breeding pair of a rare moth species in a country in the throes of a military coup. The Institute in turn is riven by competing ambitions-the scientific specialists trying to save the moths, the Players trying to save the goose that lays the golden eggs. Meanwhile, no-one has been paying enough attention to what is happening in the basement... Hollowmen is an intricate and unsettling work, its shifting, interleaved narratives by turns ironic, lyrical, witty, and savage.
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Autorenporträt
Susan Maxwell is an independent author and scholar who has had short stories and poetry published in magazines and anthologies; has published a short story collection ('Fluctuation in Disorder') independently; has had one novel ('Good Red Herring') published by Little Island Books, and a further three ('Hollowmen', 'And the Wildness', and 'A Wild Goose Hunt') published independ-ently; has served on fiction and non-fiction juries for the British Fantasy Awards; has a PhD in Archival Science and writes on themes related to archives and fiction; reviews regularly for 'Inis' (the magazine of Children's Books Ireland); is influenced most by speculative and modernist fiction, being particularly fond of Flann O'Brien, Calvino, Beckett, and Woolf. When not writing, or painting, or being an archivist, the author can be found in the vegetable patch, listening to music, reading books, watching old detective series, or catching up on sleep.