Stained Radiance: 8 (Polygon Lewis Grassic Gibbon series) - Softcover

Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748661417 ISBN 13: 9780748661411

Publisher: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited, 2000

Synopsis

A transparently autobiographical work, 'Stained Radiance' offers an insight into Gibbon's development as a writer and political thinker and contains, in Thea Mayven, the most obvious prefiguring of Chris Guthrie, heroine of the 'Scots Quair' trilogy. Thea, a girl from the Mearns, shares a London flat with the ruthlessly promiscuous Norah Casement and a young milliner, Ellen Ledgworth. The novel follows the relationships of the three young women (and much older, wealthier woman, the dilettantishly political Mrs Gayford) with four men. Thea is involved with a young Air Force clerk and would-be writer, John Garland - possibly Lewis Grassic Gibbon himself.

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Review:

It would be impossible to overestimate Lewis Grassic Gibbon's importance . . . 'A Scot's Quair' is a landmark work; it permeates the Scottish literary consciousness and colours all subsequent writing of its kind. --David Kerr Cameron

About the Author:

Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell) was one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. Born in Aberdeenshire in 1901, he died at the age of thirty-four. He was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, essays and science fiction, and his writing reflected his wide interest in religion, archaeology, history, politics and science. The Mearns trilogy, 'A Scot's Quair', is his most renowned work, and has become a landmark in Scottish literature. His novel 'Sunset Song', one of the 'Scot's Quair' trilogy, was voted number one in the List/Orange Best Scottish Books of All Time.

About this edition

• Publisher: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0748661417
• ISBN 13: 9780748661411
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 219