Author: | Henry Johnston | ISBN: | 9781311640987 |
Publisher: | Henry Johnston | Publication: | May 8, 2014 |
Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
Author: | Henry Johnston |
ISBN: | 9781311640987 |
Publisher: | Henry Johnston |
Publication: | May 8, 2014 |
Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
Language: | English |
Port Out Starboard Home is a collection of stories inspired by the magical realism genre and fantastical travel tales such as Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. The eponymous Port Out Starboard Home is a tale of seafaring phenomena encountered during the author’s migratory journey to Australia. A ghostly captain tells of an encounter with the Flying Dutchman, while the memories of immigrants are evoked in fragments of sea shanty’s and children’s rhymes. Port Out Starboard Home is a story within a story; a cautionary tale of forgotten wanderers, whose hope is wrecked by hidden, pitiless shoals.
Port Out Starboard Home is a collection of stories inspired by the magical realism genre and fantastical travel tales such as Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. The eponymous Port Out Starboard Home is a tale of seafaring phenomena encountered during the author’s migratory journey to Australia. A ghostly captain tells of an encounter with the Flying Dutchman, while the memories of immigrants are evoked in fragments of sea shanty’s and children’s rhymes. Port Out Starboard Home is a story within a story; a cautionary tale of forgotten wanderers, whose hope is wrecked by hidden, pitiless shoals.