Sunset Song - Brossura

Gibbon, Lewis Grassic

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1841957569 ISBN 13: 9781841957562

Casa editrice: Canongate Books Ltd, 2006

Riassunto

Sunset Song is the first and most celebrated of Grassic Gibbon's great trilogy, A Scot's Quair. It provides a powerful description of the first two decades of the century through the evocation of change and the lyrical intensity of its prose. It is hard to find any other Scottish novel of the last century which has received wider acclaim and better epitomises the feelings of a nation.

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James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon' (1901-35), was born and brought up in the rich farming land of Scotland's North-East coast. After a brief journalistic career, he joined the Royal Army Service Corps in 1919, serving in Persia, India and Egypt before he spent six years as a clerk in the RAF. He married Rebecca Middleton in 1925, and became a full-time writer in 1929. He was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and essays and had seventeen full length books published before his untimely death at the age of thirty-four. He adopted his maternal grandmother's name for his Scottish work including A Scots Quair: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite. An unfinished novel, The Speak of the Mearns, was published posthumously in 1982.

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"This book may be read with delight the world over." New York Times

"[Sunset Song's] great gripping hybrid of melodrama and realism . . . left me scorched." Ali Smith

One of the most acclaimed Scottish novels of the twentieth century, Sunset Song is the first and most celebrated book in Lewis Grassic Gibbons' great trilogy, A Scots Quair.

The turmoil that devastated the rural community in Scotland in the years up to and beyond the First World War has a powerful impact on the life of the heroine, Chris Guthrie. Grassic Gibbon endows her struggle and enduring strength with a lyrical intensity that echoes through the years, distilling the essence of the country and its people.

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• Editore: Canongate Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1841957569
• ISBN 13: 9781841957562
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 286
• Redattore: Crawford Tom