Forget about Superman's secret identity. The Adventures of Ordinary Man explores the secret life of the real superheroes, the Clark Kents of the world. They're the ordinary folks who manage the minutiae of daily life-handling a job and kids and significant other-while constantly striving to become Betterperson. How do people like Ordinary Man do it? By means of his superpowers-a sense of humor, a sense of the absurd, an acute sense of time passing, and the ability to drop a pertinent (or obscure) literary reference into any conversation. Beyond Ordinary Man's mild-mannered exterior lies a peculiar and unsuspected inner life, full of arrows in eyes and shadows in caves and other images drawn from the dream worlds of art, literature, and philosophy. He has no idea of the nature of his quest, but in 52 snippets of interior adventure, we learn how Ordinary Man plays the role of unrecognized hero in his life, making it intact and unbowed from one busy day to the next.
