A Scots Quair, (Sunset Song, Cloud Howe, Grey Granite), Glossary of Scots Included
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A Scots Quair, (Sunset Song, Cloud Howe, Grey Granite), Glossary of Scots Included by Lewis Gibbon
A Scots Quair is revolutionary - innovative in its form, deft and humorous in its use of the Scots language, courageous in its characterisation and politics. Central to the trilogy is Chris Guthrie, one of the most remarkable female characters in modern literature. In Sunset song, Gibbon's finest achievement, the reader follows Chris through her girlhood in a tight-knit Scottish farming community: the seasons, the weddings, the funerals, the grind of work, the gossip. As the Great War takes its toll, machines repalce the old way of life.Cloud Howe and Grey Granite take Chris from her rural homeland to life in an industrial Scotland and hte desperate years of the Depression. The triology as a whole is a major achievment, a picture of society undergoing traumatic and far-reaching transformation. Always readable, never sentimental, A Scots Quair is one of the most important works of Scottish literature.
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 was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and essays and had seventeen full length books published before his untimely death at the age of thirty-four. He adopted his maternal grandmother's name for his Scottish work including A Scots Quair: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite. An unfinished novel, The Speak of the Mearns, was published posthumously in 1982.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781849023375 |
| ISBN 10 | 1849023379 |
| Title | A Scots Quair, (Sunset Song, Cloud Howe, Grey Granite), Glossary of Scots Included |
| Author | Lewis Gibbon |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Benediction Classics |
| Year published | 2011-08-22 |
| Number of pages | 586 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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