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An account of the decline of the Great Auk, according to one who saw it / Jessie Greengrass.

An account of the decline of the Great Auk, according to one who saw it / Jessie Greengrass.
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ISBN 9781473610859 (paperback)
Name Greengrass, Jessie author.
Title An account of the decline of the Great Auk, according to one who saw it / Jessie Greengrass.
Published London : JM Originals, 2015.
©2015
Description 181 pages ; 22 cm.
Contents An account of the decline of the Great Auk, according to one who saw it -- On time travel -- All other other jobs -- Theophrastus and the dancing plague -- Winter, 2058 -- Some kind of safety -- The lonesome southern trials of Knut the whaler -- The politics of minor resistance -- Three thousand, nine hundred and forty-five miles -- Dolphin -- The comfort of the dead -- Scropton, Sudbury, Marchington, Uttoxeter.
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.
Subjects Short stories, English
Genre Short stories
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