Highland River (Canongate Classics): 12 - Softcover

Neil M. Gunn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0862413583 ISBN 13: 9780862413583

Publisher: Canongate Classics, 1997

Synopsis

Having reviewed his life, including fighting in World War I, a mature Scottish man reaches the source of the river he had grown up near in the Highlands. He realizes that the magic he had experienced there as a child was in fact always present in his erstwhile nihilistic life.

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Review:

Looked at either as a sage of the spirit or as a story dressed in all the circumstances of Higland loveliness, Mr Gunn's book has a deep and moving appeal. * * Evening Standard * * Highland River is a novel of unusual distinction. * * Irish Independent * * This book must be read as one would listen to music ... scenes are projected with a crystal clarity, sharply defined, with an odd double quality of intense immediacy and a sort of enclosed detachment. * * Times Literary Supplement * *

From the Back Cover:

The 'northern river' of the title is the physical and spiritual focus of the novel and the source to which Kenn, the central character returns. Looking back over his life from the disillusioned thirties, the river becomes symbolic of both what has been lost and what has endured.

About this edition

• Publisher: Canongate Classics
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0862413583
• ISBN 13: 9780862413583
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 242