Greenvoe by George Mackay Brown

Greenvoe by George Mackay Brown

Greenvoe, the community on the Orkney Island of Hellya, has existed unchanged for generations. George Mackay Brown has recreated a week in its life, mixing history with personality in a sparkling mixture of prose and poetry.

'a poetic, distinguished and totally delightful Orcadian story.. full of humour and sensitivity and of the unsentimental poetry of raw experience'

* Sunday Times *

'A precise, poetic and dazzling writer'

* Guardian *

'Fine delicate prose'

* Publishers’ Weekly *

'Brown is as connected to the world as any of us. He has retreated to a point where he can see the world in an internal reflection, a very clear and penetrating simplification that he could never have achieved in the midst of the hurly-burly' 

-- Ted Hughes

'He transforms everything by passing it through the eye of the needle of Orkney'

* Seamus Heaney *

George Mackay Brown (1921–96) was one of the twentieth century’s most distinguished and original writers. His lifelong inspiration and birthplace, Stromness in Orkney, moulded his view of the world, though he studied in Edinburgh and later at Newbattle Abbey College. In 1941 he was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis and lived an increasingly reclusive life in Stromness, but he produced a regular stream of publications from 1954 onwards. These included A Calendar of Love (1967), A Time to Keep (1969), Greenvoe (1972), Hawkfall (1974), and, notably, the novel Beside the Ocean of Time (1994), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Saltire Book of the Year.

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ISBN 13	9781904598176
ISBN 10	190459817X
Title	Greenvoe
Author	George Mackay Brown
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Birlinn General
Year published	2004-11-05
Number of pages	256
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