Sunset Song - Couverture souple

Grassic Gibbon, Lewis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1904598668 ISBN 13 : 9781904598664

Editeur : Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited, 2006

Synopsis

Book by Gibbon Lewis Grassic

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

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 Quair', is his most renowned work, and has become a landmark in Scottish literature. Ian Campbell is Professor of Victorian and Scottish Literature at Edinburgh University.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1904598668
• ISBN 13: 9781904598664
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288