Morning Tide by Neil M Gunn

Morning Tide by Neil M Gunn

Twelve-year-old Hugh MacBeth lives in a small fishing village near Caithness at the end of the nineteenth century. He is becoming aware of his mother's worries that he and his brother will follow their father to sea, and is becoming to realise that the fishing industry is doomed to decline, a decline that will result in the death of his village. A lyrical and poignant novel, Morning Tide, describes how a young boy learns to become a man. It is a poetic testimony to the intensity of feeling in physical experience, the touch of the earth and the coldness of the sea, and in the need to be free. Sensitivity and wildness are pitted against the restrictions of family and social life, and it is more than a complete picture of childhood; unfolding into a set of values that speaks powerfully to the present.

A moving, human document, beautifully and poetically written and leaving the reader with a new understanding-- Scottish Field * . *
Modern Scottish fiction reaches its highest peak in the novels of Neil M. Gunn... Like Hardy, and indeed Joyce... he transcends regionalism and acquires universality. -- The Scotsman * . *

Neil M. Gunn was a novelist, critic and dramatist, regarded as one of the most important Scottish authors of the early twentieth century. Born in Dunbeath, Caithness, in North East Scotland in 1891, he began his career as a customs and excise officer at the Glen Mhor whisky distillery and wrote prolifically throughout his life. In 1937 he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Highland River. He died in 1973.

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ISBN 13	9780285622012
ISBN 10	0285622013
Title	Morning Tide
Author	Neil M Gunn
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Profile Books Ltd
Year published	1993-07-22
Number of pages	256
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