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Greenvoe, the tight-knit community on the Orcadian island of Hellya, has existed unchanged for generations. However, a sinister military/industrial project, Operation Black Star, requires the island for unspecified purposes and threatens the islanders' way of life. In this, his first novel (1972), George Mackay Brown recreates a week in the life of the island community as they come to terms with the destructiveness of Operation Black Star. A whole host of characters - The Skarf, failed fishermen and Marxist historian; Ivan Westray, boatman and dallier; pious creeler Samuel Whaness; drunken fishermen Bert Kerston; earth-mother Alice Voar, and meths-drinker Timmy Folster - are vividly brought to life in this sparkling mixture of prose and poetry. In the end Operation Black Star fails, but not before it has ruined the island. But the book ends on a note of hope as the islanders return to celebrate the ritual rebirth of Hellya.
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A poetic, distinguished and totally delightful Orcadian story... full of humour and sensitivity and of the unsentimental poetry of raw experience. --Sunday Times
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'Greenvoe is a poetic, distinguished and totally delightful Orcadian story' - Sunday Times
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- PublisherHogarth
- Publication date1972
- ISBN 10 0701203692
- ISBN 13 9780701203696
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Published by The Hogarth Press in 1972, here is the first hardback printing of George Mackay Brown's GREENVOE. Maroon cloth binding, gilt lettering, 279 pages, the book is in very good condition. The price-clipped dust jacket is also in very good condition with some very minor rubbing to the edges of the jacket. Seller Inventory # 11883
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Ian MacInnes (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear and rubbing to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed and bruised, some slight dust staining to back jacket, price clipped, no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age, in bright unfaded jacket. 179pp. The small Orcadian community of Greevoe has remained unchanged for generations. Now a shady government project, Operation Black Star, threatens to destroy the islander's way of life. George Mackay Brown's first novel describes a week in the life of the islanders as the come to terms with the repercussions of Operation Black Star in a masterful mix of prose and poetry from one of Scotland's greatest writers. George Mackay Brown (1921-96), was rooted in the timeless landscape of the Orkneys, the inspiration for all his writing. A scarce book. Seller Inventory # 011210
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