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'Brown uses language with beautiful precision, resource and power.' --The Sunday Times
'His sense of the world and his way with words [became] powerfully at one with each other.' --Seamus Heaney
'He gave one hope for poetry and language.' --Peter Levi
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'His sense of the world and his way with words [became] powerfully at one with each other.' --Seamus Heaney
'He gave one hope for poetry and language.' --Peter Levi
George Mackay Brown (1921-96) was one of the major Scottish literary figures of the twentieth century - a prolific poet and novelist, he took much of his inspiration from the myths and landscape of Orkney, and also from his deep Catholic faith. He was born in Orkney in 1921 and died there in 1996. Following his first book in 1954 he published many more, including plays, novels and poems. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has set much of his work to music. In 1988 he was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 'The Golden Bird'. In 1994 his 'Beside the Ocean of Time' was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and judged Book of the Year by the Saltire Society.
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- PublisherHogarth Press
- Publication date1976
- ISBN 10 0701204192
- ISBN 13 9780701204198
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Book Description Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. THE SUN'S NET & OTHER STORIES. George Mackay Brown. Hogarth Press, London. 1976 First Edition ISBN 0701204192 268pp Hardback. hese superbly evocative stories by George Mackay Brown, centred on the people of the Orkneys, range widely in time and in theme. The strange and chequered romance between a young English prisoner of war and the daughter of his Scottish captor is set in the wake of Robert Bruce's victory at Bannockburn, while two related stories tell of mutiny and piracy in the early 18th century and a curious sequel in a Hamnavoe merchant's home. This copy has a neat name of a previous owner to the f.e.p. but is otherwise in FINE condition in a FINE price clipped dustwrapper. Ref M4. Seller Inventory # 003799
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