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A Scots Quair: Sunset Song: Cloud Howe: Grey Granite
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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Description for A Scots Quair: Sunset Song: Cloud Howe: Grey Granite
Paperback. Lewis Grassic Gibbon's remarkable trilogy, which includes Sunset Song, 'the best Scottish book of all time' Num Pages: 768 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 50. Weight in Grams: 528. 670 pages, Illustrations, maps. Chris Guthrie is torn between her love of the land and her desire to escape the narrow horizons of a peasant culture. This work interweaves the personal joys and sorrows of Chris' life with the historical and political events of the early years of the twentieth century, including the First World War. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 196 x 128 x 50. Weight: 592.
Chris Guthrie, torn between her love of the land and her desire to escape the narrow horizons of a peasant culture, is the thread that links these three works. In them, Gibbon interweaves the personal joys and sorrows of Chris' life with the greater historical and political events of the time. Sunset Song, the first and most celebrated book of the trilogy, covers the early years of the twentieth century, including the First World War. Chris survives, with her son Ewan, but the tragedy has struck and her wild spirit is subdued. In Cloud Howe, as the ... Read more
Chris Guthrie, torn between her love of the land and her desire to escape the narrow horizons of a peasant culture, is the thread that links these three works. In them, Gibbon interweaves the personal joys and sorrows of Chris' life with the greater historical and political events of the time. Sunset Song, the first and most celebrated book of the trilogy, covers the early years of the twentieth century, including the First World War. Chris survives, with her son Ewan, but the tragedy has struck and her wild spirit is subdued. In Cloud Howe, as the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Number of pages
768
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
768
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847672681
SKU
V9781847672681
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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
Reviews for A Scots Quair: Sunset Song: Cloud Howe: Grey Granite
This book may be read with delight the world over.
New York Times
It would be impossible to overestimate Lewis Grassic Gibbon's importance . . . A Scots Quair is a landmark work; it permeates the Scottish literary consciousness and colours all subsequent writing of its kind.
David Kerr Cameron A Scots Quair ... Read more
New York Times
It would be impossible to overestimate Lewis Grassic Gibbon's importance . . . A Scots Quair is a landmark work; it permeates the Scottish literary consciousness and colours all subsequent writing of its kind.
David Kerr Cameron A Scots Quair ... Read more