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Stone Voices
Neal Ascherson
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Description for Stone Voices
Paperback. The story of Neal Ascherson's return to his native Scotland. It is an exploration of Scottish identity, but this is no journalistic rumination on the future of that small nation. Ascherson instead weaves together a story of deep time with the story of modern Scotland and its rebirth. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 195 x 19. Weight in Grams: 232.
Neal Ascherson is one of Britain's finest writers in an undefinable genre that fuses history, memoir, politics and meditations on places. His books on Poland and his collected essays on the strange Britain to which he returned from Europe in the mid-1980s were deeply influential. In 1995, Black Sea won critical praise in many languages and several literary prizes. Stone Voices is Ascherson's return to his native Scotland. It is an exploration of Scottish identity, but this is no journalistic rumination on the future of that small nation. Ascherson instead weaves together a story of the deep past - the ... Read more
Neal Ascherson is one of Britain's finest writers in an undefinable genre that fuses history, memoir, politics and meditations on places. His books on Poland and his collected essays on the strange Britain to which he returned from Europe in the mid-1980s were deeply influential. In 1995, Black Sea won critical praise in many languages and several literary prizes. Stone Voices is Ascherson's return to his native Scotland. It is an exploration of Scottish identity, but this is no journalistic rumination on the future of that small nation. Ascherson instead weaves together a story of the deep past - the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Granta
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781862075832
SKU
V9781862075832
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Ref
99-34
About Neal Ascherson
Neal Ascherson was born in Edinburgh in 1932. Sustaining a long career in journalism, he has written for The Observer (1960-1990) and the Independent on Sunday (1990-1998). He contributed scripts for the 1974 documentary series World at War and the 1998 series The Cold War. More recently, he has been a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. His ... Read more
Reviews for Stone Voices
Highly personal and unusual assessment of Scotland now, weaving in his own political odyssey with a deep historical knowledge.We don't have intellectuals in this country any more except Neal and a couple of his mates, and the richness of texture in Stone Voices shows us what we are missing
Andrew Marr A richly textured and most unusual meditation on ... Read more
Andrew Marr A richly textured and most unusual meditation on ... Read more