A Novel · 2016 · New York Times Editors' Choice
The Adventurist
A lovelorn software engineer seeks escape from his deathless office existence via a quest for romance and heroic purpose—a concocted adventure that risks his livelihood, endangers his bond with his family, and forces him finally to confront the urgent question of his life.
Praise
“Bright and large-souled…a brisk and polished and somehow very American novel.” Dwight Garner · The New York Times
“A surprisingly moving portrayal of secular salvation… Hipps gives us an American Anywhere, with all its mundane sources of despair and hope.” The New York Times Book Review
“Hipps shows off a piercing insight into human interaction…[he] makes it look easy, even, at times, fun, and this unexpected kind of joy is contagious.” The Dallas Morning News
“Hipps’s prose is crisp and insightful, full of foreshadowing and wisdom about the human condition… Hipps brings [his narrator] to the precipice with compassion and wit. It’s an excellent debut.” The Austin American-Statesman
“Laced with humor, insight, and credibility…Hipps’s novel is an authentic piece of fiction, partly because the story’s resolution isn’t rendered in black and white, but various shades of gray.” Barron’s
“Witty, elegiac, and bursting with unerring observations…like a comic rewrite of Othello.” Newsday
“A striking metaphysical fable…a masterful debut novel.” Les Échos Week-end
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