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Grey Granite
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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Description for Grey Granite
Paperback. Introduced by Tom Crawford Series: Canongate Classics. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 178.
Chris Guthrie and her son, Ewan, have come to the industrial town of Duncairn, where life is as hard as the granite of the buildings all around them. These are the Depression years of the 1930s, and Chris is far from the fields of her youth in Sunset Song. In a society of factory owners, shopkeepers, policemen, petty clerks and industrial labourers, 'Chris Caledonia' must make her living as bets she can by working in Ma Cleghorn's boarding house.
Ewan finds employment in a steel foundry and tries to lead a peaceful ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
Canongate Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780862413125
SKU
V9780862413125
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-44
About Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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 ... Read more
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