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Double Heider: Twa Novellas in Scots - " Loon " , " The Girnin Gates " (Itchy Coo)
Sheena Blackhall
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Description for Double Heider: Twa Novellas in Scots - " Loon " , " The Girnin Gates " (Itchy Coo)
Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: YFB. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 198 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 194.
These two novellas - on related themes but very different in approach and narrative voice - are bound back to back or 'heelstergowdie', the Scots for 'back to front' or 'head over heels'. Loon, by Sheena Blackhall, tells the story of Donnie Paterson and how his troubled life is turned around by the discovery of his missing grandfather in a retirement home and a holiday in the Highlands where he hears a strange story that becomes the key to solving his problems. In Gilbert McGlinchy, by Hamish MacDonald, the eponymous narrator has the weight of the world's woes on his ... Read more
These two novellas - on related themes but very different in approach and narrative voice - are bound back to back or 'heelstergowdie', the Scots for 'back to front' or 'head over heels'. Loon, by Sheena Blackhall, tells the story of Donnie Paterson and how his troubled life is turned around by the discovery of his missing grandfather in a retirement home and a holiday in the Highlands where he hears a strange story that becomes the key to solving his problems. In Gilbert McGlinchy, by Hamish MacDonald, the eponymous narrator has the weight of the world's woes on his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Black and White Publishing
Language
Scots
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781902927725
SKU
V9781902927725
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-5
About Sheena Blackhall
SHEENA BLACKHALL is a prize-winning poet and fiction writer and is the author of many collections of short stories and poems written in Doric or North-East Scots. She is Creative Writing Fellow at Aberdeen University's Elphinstone Institute. She has a short story in Pure Ghosters, published by Itchy Coo, and her books include The Singing Bird, Stagwyse (Selected Poems) and ... Read more
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