Sunset Song - Brossura

Gibbon, Lewis Grassic

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1904598668 ISBN 13: 9781904598664

Casa editrice: Birlinn Ltd, 2006

Riassunto

Faced with a choice between her harsh farming life and the seductive but distant world of books and learning, Chris Guthrie eventually decides to remain in her rural community, bound by her intense love of the land. However, the intervention of the First World War leaves her choice in tatters. Chris is now a widowed single mother: her farm, and the land it occupies, is altered beyond recognition—trees torn down, people displaced. But although the novel describes a way of life which is in decline, it also presents a strong image of hope. Chris adapts to her new world, displaying an intuitive strength which, like the land which she loves, endures despite everything. Sunset Song is a testament to Scotland's agricultural past, to the world of crofters and tradition which was destroyed in the First World War. It is a powerful description of life in the first few decades of the century through the evocation of change and the lyrical intensity of its prose.

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Recensione:

Chris Guthrie is the most passionate and appealing heroine in Scottish literature; Grassic Gibbon's magnificent novel is fresh, powerful and timeless. --Anne Donovan

Its great gripping hybrid of melodrama and realism has left me scorched. --Ali Smith

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 Scots Quair, is his most renowned work, and has become a landmark in Scottish literature.

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• Editore: Birlinn Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1904598668
• ISBN 13: 9781904598664
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 263
• Redattore: Campbell Ian