Description
Title: Pirate Life, A: From Piracy, the Board Game
Author: BOLTON KEN
Illustrator: KABLE THEA (ILLUSTRATOR)/JOSE NICHOLAS (INTRO)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 15/05/2023
Imprint: CORDITE
Price: $20.00
Publishing status: Active
12 BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS
The author’s playfulness is to the fore in this strange, charming book. It is a game which invites the reader to roll the dice, take a card from the deck, gain points, lose a turn, and, one way or another, advance around a notional game board: a pirate’s world of exotic ports, risky encounters, escapades, wonders and the routine of shipboard life, always in the presence of the moody, changeable sea.
‘A Pirate Life, a board game for the impossibly bored, is a tangy, buoyant ahoy. It is a game which invites the reader to roll the dice, take a card from the deck – short, shuffle-able blocks of prose are an avant-garde tradition – gain points, lose a turn, and, one way or another, advance around a notional board: a pirate’s world of exotic ports, risky encounters, escapades, wonders and the routine of shipboard life. Cultural references bounce around, with jokes aplenty for the cognoscenti.’ – Nicholas Jose
ISBN: 9780648917656
Dimension: 230mm X 152mm
Edition: 01