| A House-Boat on the Styx Contributor(s): Bangs, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1985342839 ISBN-13: 9781985342835 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $7.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fantasy - Epic |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 6" W x 9" (0.31 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The premise of the book is that everyone who has ever died has gone to Styx, the river that circles the underworld. Charon, ferryman of the Styx being startled-and annoyed-by the arrival of a houseboat on the Styx. At first afraid that the boat will put him out of business, he later finds out that he is actually to be appointed the boat's janitor. What follows are eleven more stories which are set on the house boat. There is no central theme, and the purpose of the book appears to be as a literary thought experiment to see what would happen if various famous dead people were put in the same room with each other. Each chapter is a short story featuring various souls from history and mythology. In the twelfth chapter the house boat disappears. |