The Cone Gatherers (NEW LONGMAN LITERATURE 14-18) - Softcover

Jenkins, Robin; Cookson, Linda; Blatchford, Roy; Pateman, Barry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0582060176 ISBN 13: 9780582060173

Publisher: Longman, 1991

Synopsis

This volume is part of a new series of novels, plays and stories at GCSE/Key Stage 4 level, designed to meet the needs of the National Curriculum syllabus. Each text includes an introduction, pre-reading activities, notes and coursework activities. Also provided is a section on the process of writing, often compiled by the author., This is the story of two brothers, Calum and Neil, who work in the forest of a large Scottish estate. But the harmony of their life together is shadowed by the dark obsessive hatred of Duror, the gamekeeper.

About this title

Review:

"Let me alert everyone to the best-kept secret in modern British literature. If you love the novel; if you are interested in books that are humane and wise, not slick and cynical; then treat yourself this year to some Robin Jenkins" (Andrew Marr)

"Like all great masters, his skill is lightly worn, his sentences singing with what he does not say" (The Times)

"A masterpiece of concision and terrible pathos" (Isobel Murray)

"Few novels in our heritage have the bell-like harmonies of this book . . . it has a strange haunting poetic quality, conjuring from a few props a fable of eternal significance" (Iain Crichton Smith)

Book Description:

THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL NEVER RESTED: IN THE WORLD, AND IN EVERY HUMAN BEING, IT WENT ON

About this edition

• Publisher: Longman
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0582060176
• ISBN 13: 9780582060173
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224