‘We’d be fools not to ride this strange torpedo to the end.’ — Hunter S. Thompson 'The heart of contemporary Australian fiction is beating loud and strong. Stupendous.’ — Herald Sun
Torpedo Greatest Hits showcases the best writing from the first three years of Torpedo, Australia's most innovative fiction
quarterly.
Featuring the best of a new generation of writers from Australia and around the world, including Steven Amstredam, Toby Litt,
Krissy Kneen, Clancy Martin, Josephine Rowe, and Jon Bauer, plus graphics from Oslo Davis, Mandy Ord, and Paul O’Connell.
‘How a Moth Becomes a Boat is moving its way along my shelf to the space strictly reserved for old favourites.’ — Brad Dunne,Three Thousand
A father teaches his daughter how to break whiskey bottles. A woman looks for an old lover in a satellite photograph. A man finds the voice of his dead wife on an unlabelled cassette tape. A blind girl dreams about the taste of the moon.
Josephine Rowe captures the briefest moments; small joys, lost dreams, and silent heartbreak in these stylish, bittersweet short stories. In restrained prose touched with poetry, accompanied here with John Skibinski’s elegant line illustrations, How a Moth Becomes a Boat is a beautiful vision of life in miniature.
Torpedo: Greatest Hits