Stained Radiance: A Fictionist's Prelude: 8 - Brossura

Mitchell, James Leslie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0748661417 ISBN 13: 9780748661411

Casa editrice: Small Pr Distribution, 2000

Riassunto

Lewis Grassic Gibbon (writing under his real name James Leslie Mitchell) has sketched the lives of ordinary people living through the Jazz Age and the troubled sexuality of the times.
A transparently autobiographical work, Stained Radiance offers an insight into Gibbon's development as a writer and political thinker and contains in Thea Mayven the most obvious prefiguring of Chris Guthrie, heroine of the Scots Quair trilogy.
Thea, a girl from the Mearns, shares a London flat with the ruthlessly promiscuous Norah Casement and with a young milliner, Ellen Ledgeworth. The novel follows the relationships of the three young women (and an older, wealthier woman, the dilettantishly political Mrs. Gayford) with four men. Thea is involved with a young Air Force clerk, and would-be-writer, John Garland, presumably Mitchell himself.

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Recensione:

It would be impossible to overestimate Lewis Grassic Gibbon's importance . . . 'A Scot's Quair' is a landmark work; it permeates the Scottish literary consciousness and colours all subsequent writing of its kind. --David Kerr Cameron

L'autore:

Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell) was one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. Born in Aberdeenshire in 1901, he died at the age of thirty-four. He was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, essays and science fiction, and his writing reflected his wide interest in religion, archaeology, history, politics and science. The Mearns trilogy, 'A Scot's Quair', is his most renowned work, and has become a landmark in Scottish literature. His novel 'Sunset Song', one of the 'Scot's Quair' trilogy, was voted number one in the List/Orange Best Scottish Books of All Time.

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• Editore: Small Pr Distribution
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0748661417
• ISBN 13: 9780748661411
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 219