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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
About the Author
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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ISBN 13: 9780701204198
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Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Davey, Patricia (illustrator). First Edition. 268 pages. 440 grams. This book is in good ex-library condition with light associated markings and attachments. The dust jacket is in good condition. Dust jacket condition preserved within new clear plastic non-adhesive removable protective covering. 'These 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. 'The Book Of Black Arts' is a chilling account of a chain of pacts with the devil, the prosperity thus attained and the price exacted, while 'A Winter Tale' records a half-glimpsed Nativity in modern times. The light humour of a fishy courtship in 'Silver' contrasts with the journey of a half-ghost across Brig-O-Dread, the little stone bridge that divides sea from loch, parish from parish, and brings him into 'an august mercilessly ordering of flames'. And perhaps most characteristic of the author's celebration of his chosen earth is 'Soldier from the Wars Retuning:' a revenant from the field of battle finst that life continues and the seed is sown no matter how the war has gone - and learns not to resent this overmastering fact. Here as elsewhere in this book is a potent mingling of legend and actuality, the workaday and the sacramental, the changes time brings and the ancient underlying rhythms of a people's spiritual life.' 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrator: Davey, Patricia. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction, Modern First Editions.; ISBN: 0701204192. ISBN/EAN: 9780701204198. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001242. Seller Inventory # 001242
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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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