A Scots Quair: The Mearns Trilogy by Grassic Gibbon, Lewis

A Scots Quair: The Mearns Trilogy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781904598824)

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A Scots Quair: The Mearns Trilogy by Grassic Gibbon, Lewis

A Scots Quair: The Mearns Trilogy

$18.95
A Scots Quair: The Mearns Trilogy by Grassic Gibbon, Lewis

A Scots Quair: The Mearns Trilogy

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
ISBN-10: 190459882X
ISBN-13: 9781904598824
Publisher: Birlinn
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2006
Pages: 696
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 8.01h x 4.86w x 1.76d
By Lewis Grassic Gibbon
By Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell) was one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. Born in Aberdeenshire in 1901, he died at the age of thirty-four. He was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, essays and science fiction, and his writing reflected his wide interest in religion, archaeology, history, politics and science. This collection of novels, the Scots Quair trilogy, is his most renowned work, and has become a landmark in Scottish literature.

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