Cantitate/Preț
Produs

A Scots Quair

Autor Lewis Grassic Gibbon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 aug 2008
Chris Guthrie is torn between her love of the land and her desire to escape the narrow horizons of a peasant culture. This work interweaves the personal joys and sorrows of Chris' life with the historical and political events of the early years of the twentieth century, including the First World War.
Citește tot Restrânge

Toate formatele și edițiile

Toate formatele și edițiile Preț Express
Paperback (2) 9293 lei  22-36 zile +2597 lei  5-11 zile
  Canongate Books – 7 aug 2008 9293 lei  22-36 zile +2597 lei  5-11 zile
  BIRLINN – dec 2006 9353 lei  22-36 zile +3053 lei  5-11 zile

Preț: 9293 lei

Puncte Express: 139

Preț estimativ în valută:
1643 1959$ 1425£

Carte disponibilă

Livrare economică 23 februarie-09 martie
Livrare express 06-12 februarie pentru 3596 lei


Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781847672681
ISBN-10: 184767268X
Pagini: 768
Ilustrații: Illustrations, maps
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 53 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Ediția:Main edition
Editura: Canongate Books
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon' (1901-35), was born and brought up in the rich farming land of Scotland's North-East coast. After a brief journalistic career, he joined the Royal Army Service Corps in 1919, serving in Persia, India and Egypt before he spent six years as a clerk in the RAF. He married Rebecca Middleton in 1925, and became a full-time writer in 1929. He was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and essays and had seventeen full length books published before his untimely death at the age of thirty-four. He adopted his maternal grandmother's name for his Scottish work including A Scots Quair: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite. An unfinished novel, The Speak of the Mearns, was published posthumously in 1982.

Recenzii

'This book may be read with delight the world over.' New York Times

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Sunset Song . Cloud Howe . Grey Granite
Lewis Grassic Gibbon's remarkable trilogy, voted 'the best Scottish book of all time'
Chris Guthrie, torn between her love of the land and her desire to escape the narrow horizons of a peasant culture, is the thread that links this trilogy. In it, Gibbon interweaves the personal joys and sorrows of Chris's life with the greater historical and political events of the time.
Sunset Song, the first and most celebrated book of the trilogy, covers the early years of the twentieth century, up to and beyond the First World War. Chris survives, with her son Ewan, but tragedy has struck and her wild spirit has been subdued. In Cloud Howe, as the minister's wife, Chris learns to love again, and we witness the cruel gossip and high comedy of village life until, once again, she suffers a terrible loss. Grey Granite focuses on Ewan and his passionate involvement with justice for the common manm but for Chris, with her intuitive strength, nothing lasts - only the land endures.
'A Scots Quair is a lyrical achievement still unparalleled in British writing.' Ali Smith