The Green Isle of the Great Deep by Neil Gunn

The Green Isle of the Great Deep by Neil Gunn

"In The Green Isle of the Great Deep", Gunn continues the adventures of the two protagonists from his 1942 novel "Young Art and Old Hector". The unlikely friends, representing the extremes of age and youth, are out on an undercover poaching trip when they become swept up in the currents of a salmon pool. When they awaken they have been transported from the Highlands of our world to an alternative Highland universe: a beautiful, fertile land called the Green Isle. Despite the abundance of the land, and the trees dripping with fruit, the population are subdued and miserable, ruled over by a strict upper class and forbidden to touch the fruit. Young Art, however, is not so easily controlled and his actions begin a chain of events which will change the Green Isle forever. Gunn draws many parallels in this tale, from the biblical references to Eden and the Tree of Knowledge, to contemporary commentary on the Nazi situation in 1940s Europe. Told fully in Highland dialect, 'The Green Isle of the Great Deep" is a both a wonderful Scottish parable and a warning of the dangers of power and its abuse.

'A brilliant novelist' Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Neil Gunn was born in Dunbeath, Caithness in 1891, the seventh of nine children. He published short stories throughout the 1920s and his first novel The Grey Coast in 1926. He wrote several other novels, including Butcher's Broom (1934), The Silver Darlings (1941) and his autobiography, The Atom of Delight, in 1956. He worked for the Civil Service as a Customs and Excise officer before becoming a full-time writer in 1937. He died in 1973.

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ISBN 13	9781904598688
ISBN 10	1904598684
Title	The Green Isle of the Great Deep
Author	Neil Gunn
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Birlinn General
Year published	2006-06-02
Number of pages	272
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