Key of the Chest - Hardcover

Gunn, Neil M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802710522 ISBN 13: 9780802710529

Publisher: Walker & Co, 1988

Synopsis

The lives of brothers Dougald and Charlie, outcasts in a small village, are threatened with ruin when Charlie is suspected of murder and the town's fear and hatred serve as his jury

About this title

About the Author

Neil Miller Gunn was born in Dunbeath, one of the nine children of 'bookish' Isabella Miller, and James Gunn, a fishing skipper of local renown. In 1911, he began 26 years as an excise officer, many of them at whisky distilleries in the Highlands and the Islands. In 1921, Gunn married Jessie Frew. The first of his 21 novels, "The Grey Coast," appeared in 1926. In 1937, the acclaim won by his seventh, the prize-winning" Highland River," encouraged him to resign his excise post and write full-time. Gunn's wife died in 1963, and he lived alone in the Black Isle until his death. Since then, his standing as one of Scotland's finest novelists had become even more firmly established, and the Neil Gunn International Fellowship has been founded in his honor.

Synopsis

Charlie, a disgraced divinity student who has lost his faith, is under suspicion of having murdered a shipwrecked seaman and stolen from his chest. A man at odds with the world and unable to conform, he faces further crisis when he embarks on a forbidden affair with a minister's daughter.

Edition details

• Publisher: Walker & Co
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802710522
• ISBN 13: 9780802710529
• Binding: Hardcover