Sean Rabin Sean Rabin i(A146619 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 3 y separately published work icon The Good Captain Sean Rabin , Yarraville : Transit Lounge , 2022 24381003 2022 single work novel

'Set in the near future – during a time of plummeting fish stocks, toxic algae blooms and jellyfish swarms – The Good Captain follows a group of radical environmentalists committed to a mission of extreme civil disobedience against the powers threatening to destroy the last of the world’s marine life.

'Led by the wild Rena – born and raised by the ocean – the characterful crew engages in a high seas drama that contains all the thrill of a cat-and-mouse seafaring classic, while at the same time offering a timely warning for the political classes that their negligence will not go unpunished.

'Evoking a disturbing vision of what the world might soon become – random, dangerous, surprising and sometimes even miraculous – The Good Captain is a gripping, confronting and truly unique novel.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 The Old Gods Sean Rabin , 2017 single work short story
— Appears in: Review of Australian Fiction , vol. 22 no. 3 2017;
1 7 y separately published work icon Wood Green Sean Rabin , Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2016 9313404 2016 single work novel

'Michael, an aspiring writer who has recently finished his PhD, takes a job as the secretary to his literary hero, Lucian Clarke, a reclusive novelist with a mysterious cosmopolitan past, who lives in a cottage in a village on a mountain outside Hobart which gives the book its title, Wood Green. Peopled by an ensemble cast, the local publican, the single mother who manages the pub’s kitchen, the unhappily married couple that runs the corner store, a newcomer from Johannesburg with a murky past, a snivelling B&B proprietor and a determined ex-girlfriend, Wood Green artfully evokes the claustrophobia of small-town life. While Michael believes he is making a new life for himself, Lucian has other plans. Rabin writes with wit and intelligence – and deftly executes an unsuspected plot twist – in his exploration of the perils of literary ambition and the elusive prospect of artistic legacy.' (Source: Publisher's website)

1 I Can Hear the Ice Singing Sean Rabin , 2012 single work short story
— Appears in: The Best Australian Stories 2012 2012; (p. 185-205)
1 The Good Healer Sean Rabin , 2012 single work short story
— Appears in: Wet Ink , no. 26 2012; (p. 7-12)
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