Nick Hunt

Broschiertes Buch

Loss Soup and Other Stories

Beschreibung

A journalist is invited to the fabled Dinner of Loss to drink a viscous soup made of lost and extinct things. In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a nihilistic sea captain becalms himself on a plastic sea, while in an English fishing village a senile Blackbeard reminisces about his bloodthirsty glory days. The failed conquistador Cabeza de Vaca sheds his personality on the swampy coasts of the New World, and in a cabin in the woods a couple are haunted by the ghosts of Homo erectus, Neanderthals and other extinct hominids. Elsewhere, a legendary beast is dragged from a Welsh mountain lake... The fourteen stories in Nick Hunt's debut collection of short fiction travel from sixteenth-century Mexico to a post-collapse near future, from a visionary supermarket to life on other planets. All of them revolve around different forms of loss. By turns blackly funny, disquieting and fantastical, Loss Soup and Other Stories is a journey through the Anthropocene, climate chaos and the Sixth Extinction to the strange new worlds that might lie beyond.

Autor

Nick Hunt's short stories and essays have been published in Dark Mountain since 2010. As a travel writer, his books include "Walking the Woods and the Water", telling the story of an eight-month walk from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul; "Where the Wild Winds Are", which explores how Europe's named winds affect landscapes, people and cultures; and most recently "Outlandish", describing four walks in Europe's 'unlikely landscapes'. He was a finalist for the Stanford Dolman Travel Award in 2015 and 2018. He is also the author of "The Parakeeting of London", a work of gonzo ornithology, and has written for The Guardian, The Economist, New Internationalist, Emergence, Resurgence & Ecologist, Caught By the River, Geographical and other publications. He works as an editor and co-director of the Dark Mountain Project, performs as a storyteller and currently lives in Bristol, in the south-west of England.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: A Greenbank Book
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 237g
• ISBN-13: 9781896559827
• ISBN-10: 1896559824
• Artikelnr.: 63989569