A Scots Quair: Sunset Song: Cloud Howe: Grey Granite

Paperback

Main Details

Title A Scots Quair: Sunset Song: Cloud Howe: Grey Granite
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Introduction by Tom Crawford
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:768
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781847672681
ClassificationsDewey:823.912
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Canongate Books Ltd
Imprint Canongate Books Ltd
Publication Date 7 August 2008
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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 these three works. In them, Gibbon interweaves the personal joys and sorrows of Chris' 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, including the First World War. Chris survives, with her son Ewan, but the tragedy has struck and her wild spirit is subdued. In Cloud Howe, as the minister's wife, Chris learns to love again, and we witness the cruel gossip and high comedy of small village life until, once again, Chris suffers a terrible loss. Grey Granite focuses on her son Ewan and his passionate involvement with justice for the common man. For Chris, with her intuitive strength, nothing lasts - only the land endures.

Author Biography

Born James Leslie Mitchell in 1901, Lewis Grassic Gibbon was a key figure in Scotland's literary renaissance of the 1920s and 30s, growing to become a writer of international importance. His most celebrated work is A Scots Quair (Canongate Classics). He died in 1935.

Reviews

* This book may be read with delight the world over. New York Times * It would be impossible to overestimate Lewis Grassic Gibbon's importance ... A Scots Quair is a landmark work; it permeates the Scottish literary consciousness and colours all subsequent writing of its kind. -- David Kerr Cameron * Gibbon's style is one of the great achievements of the trilogy and should be seen ... in the context of mordernist innovators such as James Joyce, Gerturde Stein and William Faulkner. -- Tom Crawford * A Scots Quair is a lyrical achievement still unparalleled in British writing. -- Ali Smith