Sunset Song - Couverture souple

Grassic Gibbon, Lewis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1841957569 ISBN 13 : 9781841957562

Editeur : Canongate Classics, 2006

Synopsis

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, bound by her intense love of the land. However, the intervention of the First World War leaves her choice in tatters. Chris is now a widowed single mother: her farm, and the land it occupies, is altered beyond recognition - trees torn down, people displaced. But although the novel describes a way of life which is in decline, it also presents a strong image of hope. Chris adapts to her new world, displaying an intuitive strength which, like the land which she loves, endures despite everything. "Sunset Song" is a testament to Scotland's agricultural past, to the world of crofters and tradition which was destroyed in the First World War. It is a powerful description of life in the first few decades of the century through the evocation of change and the lyrical intensity of its prose. Renowned expert Ian Campbell has produced the first new scholarly text for fifteen years and has the blessing of the Lewis Grassic Gibbon estate.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"Sunset Song's great gripping hybrid of melodrama and realism . . . left me scorched" (ALI SMITH)

"Chris Guthrie is the most passionate and appealing heroine in Scottish literature; Grassic Gibbon's magnificent novel is fresh, powerful and timeless" (ANNE DONOVAN)

"This book may be read with delight the world over" (New York Times)

"Beautifully written . . . While describing a way of life in decline, it also presents a vision of hope for the future via its strong female lead character" (Independent on Sunday)

"It is gritty and passionate and one of Scotland's great 20th-century novels" (Jim Naughtie Daily Express)

"Cries out for the widest international audience" (Herald) --New York Times

"His three great novels have the impetus and music of mountain burns in full spate" (Observer) --Observer

"When I read Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song in my mid-teens I entered into it with such wholehearted love that I longed to live inside it . . . Chris is the centre of the novel and its genius, vivid on every page where she's present. You feel how she must have possessed the writer, as powerfully as if he knew her . . . . Reading her again now, she convinces me absolutely as a real female" (TESSA HADLEY Guardian) --Guardian

Biographie de l'auteur :

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 clerk in the RAF. He married Rebecca Middleton in 1925, and became a full-time writer in 1929. He published several sort stories and articles, a book of non-fiction and seven novels under his name Mitchell. He adopted his mother's name for his finest work, the trilogy A Scots Quair: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite, written between 1932 and 1934. An unfinished novel, The Speak of the Mearns, was published posthumously in 1982.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Canongate Classics
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1841957569
• ISBN 13: 9781841957562
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288