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Half-Light
Neil M Gunn
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Description for Half-Light
Paperback. Introduction by Dairmid Gunn Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 236 x 14. Weight in Grams: 524.
Neil M. Gunn is celebrated as one of Scotland's foremost novelists of the 20th century. Less well known is that he was also a perceptive and meditative essayist and accomplished writer of short stories. Most of his short stories were written in the 1920s and 1930s in parallel with his early novels, which they influence and inform. This collection draws some of its short stories from two previous collections but others are published for the first time. Although most are set against a Highland background, they are not in any way parochial; they touch on universal themes, which invite the ... Read more
Neil M. Gunn is celebrated as one of Scotland's foremost novelists of the 20th century. Less well known is that he was also a perceptive and meditative essayist and accomplished writer of short stories. Most of his short stories were written in the 1920s and 1930s in parallel with his early novels, which they influence and inform. This collection draws some of its short stories from two previous collections but others are published for the first time. Although most are set against a Highland background, they are not in any way parochial; they touch on universal themes, which invite the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Whittles Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Caithness, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849950459
SKU
V9781849950459
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Ref
99-1
Reviews for Half-Light
'Lively writing which makes enjoyable reading in the 21st century.' The Scots Magazine '...a new collection of Gunn's short fiction ... while set in the Highlands they deal with universal human preoccupations'. Jim Gilchrist, The Scotsman