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At once an old-fashioned-buddy-novel-shoot-'em-up and a work of deliciously imagined fantasy, Howard L. Anderson's amazing debut presents the haunting storyline of a world where something has truly gone horribly awry.... Having escaped from Australia's Adelaide Zoo, an orphaned platypus named Albert embarks on a journey through the outback searching for "Old Australia", a rumored land of liberty, promise, and peacefulness. What he will find there, however, away from the safe confinement of his enclosure for the very first time since his earliest memories, proves to be a great deal more than he expected. Exclusively in the outback, with a clear soft drink bottle as his single possession, Albert stumbles upon pyromaniacal wombat Jack port, and collectively they spend a night drinking and gaming in Ponsby Place, a rough-and-tumble mining town. Accused of losing down the neighborhood mercantile, the duo flees into menacing dingo place and quickly go their split ways - Albert to go after his future in the wastelands, Jack port to reconcile his history. Encountering a motley assortment of characters on the way - a pair of invariably drunk bandicoots, a militia of kangaroos, hordes of the mercurial dingoes, and a former prize-fighting Tasmanian devil - our improbable hero will discover a power and skill for success he never suspected he possessed. Told with equivalent parts wit and compassion, Albert of Adelaide shows how it is the unexpected route, and the most improbable companions, that lead us on the road to who we really are. Who you journey with, in the end, is a lot more important than wherever it is you are going.

Category: Fantasy