Young Art and Old Hector by Neil M Gunn

Young Art and Old Hector by Neil M Gunn

When the sheer intensities of family life become too much for eight-year-old Art, it is to Old Hector that he turns for comfort. Thwarted from fulfilling his burning desire to go to the River, he seeks out the old man who can still poach a salmon with the best when he chooses. Through Old Hector's tales and his own experiences, Young Art gradually learns about the painful business of growing up. Young Art and Old Hector shows Neil Gunn's artistry at its very best; above all, his genius for clothing a simple story of Caithness crofter-fishermen in the rich garb of myth. It is also one of the finest evocations of childhood ever written, conveying all the magic and misery and the bursting joys of being a small boy in the great and mysterious world.

One of the most important Scottish writers of the twentieth century * Times Literary Supplement *
Modern Scottish fiction reaches its highest peak in the novels of Neil MGunn... Like Hardy, and indeed Joyce... he transcends regionalism and acquires universality. * The Scotsman *

Neil Miller Gunn lived from 8 November 1891 to 15 January 1973. He was was a prolific novelist, critic and dramatist who emerged as one of the leading lights of the "Scottish Renaissance" of the 1920s and 1930s. He is rated, alongside Lewis Grassic Gibbon, as one of the two most important Scottish authors in the first half of the 20th Century.

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ISBN 13	9780285622548
ISBN 10	0285622544
Title	Young Art and Old Hector
Author	Neil M Gunn
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Profile Books Ltd
Year published	1976-09-01
Number of pages	256
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