Bachelor Butterflies
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A novella set in Murka, a fictional country. The government decrees: unemployed single males are the cause of crime. They must be deported to Tract 1. They can only return to Murka if they pass the Interview.
Cover artwork by Arlene Amaler-Raviv
Customer reviews
Delightfully droll
David Mitchell, editor, Point Reyes Light newspaper, California
Set in a totalitarian world of the future… Probst is at his best describing social oppression… handled imaginatively… a delightfully droll intellect… the opening lines are magnificent. January 1995.
Ordinary, but surreal
Caroline Merriman, writer. Hornsey Hornet newspaper, London.
The style, which veers between the ordinary and the surreal, is one of the most enjoyable aspects of this novel.
Short but compelling
The Sunday Times
A satire on current attitudes... Probst's dystopian vision operates on a personal and, therefore, universal level ... A short but strangely compelling narrative.
Anomie with a dash of hope
John Hegley, poet and comedian
Stark, and compelling storytelling… An atmosphere of anomie with a dash of hope.
A tremendous piece of writing
Lionel Abrahams, South African writer and poet
A tremendous piece of writing measured by its power to make me see people and places and share feelings.
Very wonderfully written
Tony Peake, author
Very wonderfully written… Held and intrigued me. The characters pulled me into their lives.
Book extracts
What did I want?
An excerpt from 'Bachelor Butterflies'.
‘What did I want; the one who calms my heart? or the one who made my heart beat?’
One of the few remaining, public male preserves
An excerpt from 'Bachelor Butterflies'.
‘I prefer an older man, in a simpler place, working at a leisurely pace; but I have always been able to walk into any barber shop I choose and come out satisfied. Five times a year I visit this representative of one of the few remaining, public male preserves. It's the closest I'll ever get to enjoying a man's hands.’
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ISBN
- ISBN: 9780952152712