The Summer Stance by Lorn Macintyre
Abhainn na Croise, the river of the cross, where the otters swim and the Scottish Travellers camped for generations, working on the land, repairing whatever was broken, and welcomed back each year by the areas settled residents.Those days are long gone, but Domhnall Macdonald, raised in a Glasgow tower block, yearns for the old ways and the freedom they represent. When his grandmother falls ill, Domhnall determines to take her back to the Abhainn na Croise one last time - but times have changed too much.Instead of the welcome of old, the returning travellers are met with suspicion, hostility and violence - and Domhnall becomes a hunted man.Set in the timeless Scottish landscape, Lorn Macintyre's latest novel is an intimate portrait of a misunderstood way of life and a fast disappearing part of Scottish culture.Lorn Macintyre was born in Taynuilt, Argyll, and spent formative years on the Isle of Mull, both places being the inspiration for his poetry and prose and his exposure to Gaelic culture. His doctorate on Sir Walter Scott and the Highlands shows how that area of Scotland was romanticised and misrepresented in literature by 'the Wizard of the North, ' with lasting detriment. Lorn is the author of the Chronicles of Invernevis, about a Highland landed family, of which four in the series of novels have been published. He has published two acclaimed collections of short stories based on his years on Mull and its characters, including his own legendary father Angus, poet, bank manager and obsessed Gael. His poetry, like his fiction, records and laments the disappearance of a traditional way of life, with accompanying decline in the Gaelic language, and the exploitation of the environment, with some wildlife under threat of extinction through the use of chemicals. Lorn's website is at
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| ISBN 13 | 9781910946589 |
| ISBN 10 | 1910946583 |
| Title | The Summer Stance |
| Author | Lorn Macintyre |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | ThunderPoint Publishing Limited |
| Year published | 2019-09-04 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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