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Air Lines: Short Stories to Be Read on Planes
Paperback
Publisher: Europa Edizioni Srl
Published: Feb 21 2024
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
Drawing on his fascination with the natural world and human nature, John Power presents us with a collection of short stories that peer around the corner of life. Each self-contained story captures a snapshot, a scene, a momentary observation to highlight both the beauty and brutality of our natures. Set in different countries and epochs, these poetic, fable-like tales are linked by a single, arbitrary thread: a reference to air travel.
- An inventor tries to gain funding for a new kind of butterfly-powered airship.
- An introverted child is obsessed with leaving the ground.
- An ancient landscape speaks to a hiker with sounds of growth and decay.
With sting-in-the-tail resolutions and piercing honesty, Air Lines: Short Stories to Be Read on Planes investigates the truth behind our interactions with ourselves and others.
John Power is an Australian journalist, editor, and author. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree from The University of Melbourne and a Graduate Diploma in Publishing & Editing from Monash University.
His first book of fiction, Life Training: Short Stories to Be Read on Trains, was published by Longueville Books.
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