Invisible Islands

Angus Peter Campbell

ISBN 10: 0955228301 / ISBN 13: 9780955228308

Published by Otago Publishing, Glasgow, 2006

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Paperback, vii + 138 pages, NOT ex-library. Title page signed & inscribed by the author. Gentle wear to tips of page and cover corners, else an attractive little-used copy with clean, bright, untanned pages, unmarked text and tight binding. Lightly shelfworn cover with a bit of rubbing to edges. Spine straight, free of vertical creasing, showing a couple of short horizontal creases to the lower edge. --- "The Invisible Islands" - twenty-one beautifully crafted fictions, each illuminating a specific island in the mythic Invisible Islands archipelago. Originally inspired by the genius of Calvino and Borges, these Islands are memorable imaginative and emblematic. The real mixes with the surreal, as you travel beneath the sea from Armaigh to the Brandenburg Gate and the Forbidden City, as you journey from the remote holy island of St Eņinean's to the high ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Steeped in real and mythic history and tradition, the Islands are utterly contemporary and international. These elegantly written fables, both humorous and humane, remind you that life is fabulous, in the true sense of the word.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Invisible Islands
• Publisher: Otago Publishing, Glasgow
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0955228301
• ISBN 13: 9780955228308
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

The Invisible Islands -twenty-one beautifully crafted
fictions, each illuminating a specific island in the mythic Invisible
Islands archipelago. Originally inspired by the genius of Calvino and
Borges, these Islands are memorable imaginative and emblematic.

The real mixes with the surreal, as you travel beneath the sea from Armaigh
to the Brandenburg Gate and the Forbidden City, as you journey from the
remote holy island of St Eņinean's to the high ceiling of the Sistine
Chapel.Steeped in real and mythic history and tradition,the Islands are
utterly contemporary and international. These elegantly written fables,
both humorous and humane, remind you that life is fabulous, in the true
sense of the word.