Sunset Song

Author: Gibbon, Lewis Grassic

Brand: Penguin

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 336

Release Date: 18-12-2007

Part Number: 22002206

Details: Product Description
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHYoung Chris Guthrie lives a brutal life in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland, torn between her passion for the land, duty to her family and her love of books. When her mother, broken by repeated childbirths, takes her own life and poisons her two youngest children, Chris is left with her father to run the farm on her own. Soon she is alone, and for the first time can choose how to spend her life. But as the First World War begins, everything changes, and the young men leave Scotland for battle. The first in Gibbon's classic trilogy A Scot's Quair, Sunset Song is infused with local vernacular, and innovatively blends Scots and English in an intense description of Scottish life in the early twentieth century.
Review
"His three great novels have the impetus and music of mountain burns in full spate."
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The Observer (London)
About the Author
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of
Spring, Winter, Autumn, Public library and other stories, How to be both, Shire, Artful, There but for the, The first person and other stories, Girl Meets Boy, The Accidental, The whole story and other stories, Hotel World, Other stories
and other stories,
Like and
Free Love.
Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize.
The Accidental was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize.
How to be both won the Bailey's Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Autumn was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017 and
Winter was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2018. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.

EAN: 9780141188409

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 1.0 inches

Languages: english