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Sunset Song
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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Description for Sunset Song
Paperback. Faced with a choice between her harsh farming life and the seductive but distant world of books and learning, Chris Guthrie eventually decides to remain in her rural community. However, the intervention of WWI leaves her choice in tatters. This is a novel of love and new possibilities, set against a backdrop of rural life during WWI. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 272.
Faced with the choice between her harsh farming life and the seductive but distant world of books and learning, the spirited Chris Guthrie decides to remain in her rural community. But as the devastation of the First World War leaves her life-and community-in tatters, she must draw strength from what she loves and endure, like the land she loves so intensely.
Brutal and beautiful, passionate and powerful, Sunset Song is a moving portrait of a declining way of life and an inspirational celebration of the human spirit. And in Chris Guthrie, Grassic Gibbon has given us one of literature's ... Read more
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Publisher
Birlinn General United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
271g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904598664
SKU
V9781904598664
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Ref
99-2
About Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell) was one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. Born in Aberdeenshire in 1901, he died at the age of thirty-four. He was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, essays and science fiction, and his writing reflected his wide interest in religion, archaeology, history, politics and science. The Mearns trilogy, A Scots ... Read more
Reviews for Sunset Song
'Sunset Song is my favourite book of all time'
Nicola Sturgeon MSP, First Minister of Scotland 'One of the five best Scottish novels of all times'
Ian Rankin
The Wall Street Journal
'I've just re-read Sunset Song, and its great gripping hybrid of melodrama and realism has left me scorched ... Grassic Gibbon's language in the ... Read more
Nicola Sturgeon MSP, First Minister of Scotland 'One of the five best Scottish novels of all times'
Ian Rankin
The Wall Street Journal
'I've just re-read Sunset Song, and its great gripping hybrid of melodrama and realism has left me scorched ... Grassic Gibbon's language in the ... Read more