Time in a Red Coat - Softcover

George Mackay Brown

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846975077 ISBN 13: 9781846975073

Publisher: Polygon (An Imprint of Birlinn Limited), 2019

Synopsis

Bestowed at birth with two gifts, an ivory flute and a bag of silver and gold coins, a young girl wanders through time.

She is destined to pursue the dragon of war and before he consumes the world in flames, subdue him not with violence but music. Moving across the battlefields from East to West, the girl bears witness to the suffering and brutality of war throughout history ...

About this title

About the Author:

George Mackay Brown (1921-96) was one of the twentieth century's most distinguished and original writers. His lifelong inspiration and birthplace, Stromness in Orkney, moulded his view of the world, though he studied in Edinburgh and later at Newbattle Abbey College. In 1941 he was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis and lived an increasingly reclusive life in Stromness, but he produced a regular stream of publications from 1954 onwards. These included A Calendar of Love (1967), A Time to Keep (1969), Greenvoe (1972), Hawkfall (1974), and, notably, the novel Beside the Ocean of Time (1994), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Saltire Book of the Year.

About this edition

• Publisher: Polygon (An Imprint of Birlinn Limited)
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1846975077
• ISBN 13: 9781846975073
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160