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25%OFFMaggie Fergusson - George Mackay Brown: The Life - 9780719566059 - V9780719566059
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George Mackay Brown: The Life

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Description for George Mackay Brown: The Life Paperback. One of the most highly acclaimed biographies of 2006 -- now published in paperback Num Pages: 384 pages, 8pp b/w plate section. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 288.
George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide international reputation, but hardly left his native Orkney. A prolific poet, admired by such fellow poets as Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Charles Causley, and hailed by the composer Peter Maxwell Davies as 'the most positive and benign influence ever on my own efforts at creation', he was also an accomplished novelist (shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize for Beside the Ocean of Time) and a master of the short story. When he died in 1996, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
John Murray
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
271g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719566059
SKU
V9780719566059
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Ref
99-10

About Maggie Fergusson
Maggie Fergusson has written for newspapers and magazines including The Times, the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, Harpers & Queen and the Independent magazine, and is Secretary of the Royal Society of Literature. She is married with two daughters and lives in London. This is her first book.

Reviews for George Mackay Brown: The Life
'A real treat: a sensitive record of a neglected modern poet that made a convincing argument for his genius'
Tim Martin, Daily Telegraph
'One of the best lives of a poet I have ever read is Maggie Fergusson's George Mackay Brown. She creeps up, not only on her subject, but also on her reader, wooing and cunning. Out ... Read more

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