Sunset Song
$33.93
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2007
Summary
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH
Young Chris Guthrie lives a brutal life in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland, torn between her passion for the land, duty to her family and her love of books. When her mother, broken by repeated childbirths, takes her own life and poisons her two youngest children, Chris is left with her father to run the farm on her own. Soon she is alone, and for the first time can choose how to spend her life. But as the First World War begins, everything ch…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141188409 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141188405 |
| Author: | Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Ali Smith |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2007 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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His three great novels have the impetus and music of mountain burns in full spate. “The Observer” (London)
“His three great novels have the impetus and music of mountain burns in full spate.” -The Observer (London)
About The Author
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1901-1935) is the celebrated pen-name of James Leslie Mitchell, one of the outstanding figures in Scottish Literature, world famous as the author of the trilogy of novels known as A Scots Quair.
Ali Smith’s first book, Free Love, won the Saltire First Book Award. Hotel World was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize in 2001 and won the Encore Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award in 2002. Her latest novel The Accidental (2005) won the Whitbread award for best novel.
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