A Scots Quair: Sunset Song; Cloud Howe; Grey Granite (Penguin modern classics fiction) - Softcover
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 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.
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Review:
'Combines gritty realism with gripping melodrama.'
Book Description:
Lewis Grassic Gibbon's remarkable trilogy, which includes Sunset Song, 'the best Scottish book of all time'
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 014118566X
- ISBN 13 9780141185668
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages496
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