Beside the Ocean of Time

George Mackay Brown

ISBN 10: 0006548628 / ISBN 13: 9780006548621

Published by Harpercollins Aug 1995, 1995

Neuware - Thorfinn, a crofter's son living on the remote island of Norday, is a dreamy boy ; 'idle and useless' according to his teachers. Bored by school, happier wandering the shores of his island home, he escapes into the limitless world of his imagination. Closing his eyes in the 1930s he dreams of crossing the 'fish-fraught' ocean with Viking raiders. Falling asleep to the monotonous tones of a history lesson he finds himself running from the press gang into the arms of a beautiful seal-maiden who longs to return to the sea. War and adventure, the struggles of great men and the everyday toil of the fisherfolk, Thorfinn dreams the sweep of Norday's history, its life and its inevitable death. Seller Inventory # 9780006548621

Synopsis:

About the Author: George MacKay Brown was born in Stromness in the Orkney Islands in 1921. He studied at Newbattle Abbey under Edwin Muir and read English at Edinburgh University. He has published many books including plays, poems, novels and collections of short stories. Edwin Muir described his work as possessing ‘a strangeness and magic rare anywhere in literature today’. George Mackay Brown has seldom left Orkney since he completed his academic studies, and the imagery and history of the islands has been the inspiration for all his work. His novel Beside the Ocean of Time was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Beside the Ocean of Time
Publisher: Harpercollins Aug 1995
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Taschenbuch
Condition: Neu