An account of the decline of the Great Auk, according to one who saw it
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An account of the decline of the Great Auk, according to one who saw it
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- An account of the decline of the Great Auk, according to one who saw it
- Statement of responsibility
- Jessie Greengrass
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The twelve stories in this startling collection range over centuries and across the world. There are stories about those who are lonely, or estranged, or out of time. There are hauntings, both literal and metaphorical; and acts of cruelty and neglect but also of penance. Some stories concern themselves with the present, and the mundane circumstances in which people find themselves: a woman who feels stuck in her life imagines herself in different jobs--as a lighthouse keeper in Wales, or as a guard against polar bears in a research station in the Arctic. Some stories concern themselves with the past: a sixteenth-century alchemist and doctor, whose arrogance blinds him to people's dissatisfaction with their lives until he experiences it himself. Finally, in the title story, a sailor gives his account--violent, occasionally funny and certainly tragic--of the decline of the Great Auk
- Awards note
- Edge Hill Short Story Prize, Winner 2016.
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 823.92
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR6107.R44433
- LC item number
- A6 2015
- Literary form
- fiction
- Target audience
- adult
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