Winter Tales - Couverture souple

Brown, George Mackay

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0006550312 ISBN 13 : 9780006550310

Editeur : Flamingo, 1996

Synopsis

In this collection of stories, predominated by winter and its festivals, George Mackay Brown re-establishes the tradition of ancient, hearthside story-telling.

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Winter and its festivals, celebrated alike by Orkney's Stone-Age builders and their Christian successors as a time of light springing from darkness, predominate in this superb collection from one of the great storytellers of our time.

Here Lieutenant William Bligh comes to the little port of Hamnavoe, an Edinburgh gentlemen rediscovers his roots in Shetland, Scandinavians are shipwrecked on the Orkney coast, and we follow Norse warriors to the Holy Land. Most characteristically, George Mackay Brown looks at the effect of new ways of thinking and working on the ancient patterns of Orkney life.

Light and darkness are common themes in these tales, which all have a fireside ambience.. It is easy to imagine Mackay Brown…Enthralling all before him as the peat crackles and another bottle of malt is broached"
SUNDAY EXPRESS

"George Mackay Brown's 'Winter Tales' is an enchanting, tender and robust collection of stories steeped in the ancient rhythms and customs of rural life…"
VOGUE

"In this collection the author is at his celebratory and affirmative best. Everything he writes about is rooted in the harsh Orkney landscape, yet is often heart-achingly tender and compassionate"
YORKSHIRE POST

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Flamingo
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0006550312
• ISBN 13: 9780006550310
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible