{"product_id":"a-scots-quair-lewis-grassic-gibbon-9781904598824","title":"A Scots Quair: The Mearns Trilogy","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCloud 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lewis Grassic Gibbon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 190459882X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781904598824\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Birlinn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 696\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.01h x 4.86w x 1.76d","brand":"Lewis Grassic Gibbon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46052278403327,"sku":"9781904598824","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_065f090f-9d02-49e2-9382-a61a9c076f4d.jpg?v=1723555858","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-scots-quair-lewis-grassic-gibbon-9781904598824","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}