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Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Author), William Malcolm (Editor), Ali Smith (Introduction)
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Book Description

Publication Date: December 18, 2007 | Series: Penguin Classics
Scotland's favorite modern novel

Sunset Song is the first volume in Gibbon's revered trilogy, A Scot's Quair. In it, he chronicles the life of young Chris Guthrie. Living in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland, she is torn between her passion for the land, duty to her family, and love of books. When her mother kills herself and her two youngest children, Chris and her father are left to run the farm on their own. But everything changes once more as the First World War begins. Infused with local vernacular, Sunset Song is a poignant and intense portrait of Scottish life in the early twentieth century.

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"His three great novels have the impetus and music of mountain burns in full spate."
-The Observer (London)

About the Author

Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1901-1935) is the pen name of James Leslie Mitchell, one of the outstanding figures in Scottish literature.
Ali Smith is the author of Hotel World, which was short-listed for both the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize, and The Accidental, winner of the 2005 Whitbread Novel of the Year.
William K. Malcolm is a director of the Grassic Gibbon Centre.

Product Details

  • Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics (December 18, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0141188405
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141188409
  • Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.8 x 7.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #243,073 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Outstanding January 8, 2008
By SusieQ
Format:Paperback
Several years ago, I saw a PBS "Masterpiece Theatre" adaptation of SUNSET SONG. It was excellent, and prompted me to go out & quickly purchase a copy of this novel. I have since re-read it at least once a year. The story of the life of a young girl, Chris Guthrie, in turn-of-the-century Scotland to the end of WWI, it is a page-turner, filled with vivid characterizations; disturbing in some parts, filled with tenderness in others. A truly compelling, beautiful novel that memorializes another place and time, vividly. Cannot recommend this novel highly enough.

My understanding is that this the first novel in a trilogy called "Scots Quair" but I have never read the other two novels. SUNSET SONG can easily stand alone, in my opinion; I don't want to take Chris any farther than she's brought here. I felt her character and her life were fully developed (heartbreakingly so) by this novel alone.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Language as music May 29, 2009
By sr
Format:Paperback
I don't even know where to start on this one.

Look, if you've got a tin ear, short attention span, are raised on video games, and don't want challenges to your own experience, curl up to a Stephen King and a Bud on the vinyl lounge chair on the patio and be happy. But for heaven's sake don't crack these pages. You'll just suck air into the R-complex, and you'll have to purge it.

On the other hand, if you want to do the rad in lingo, strap yourself into another more advanced mind, Mr. Gibbon's for instance, and struggle up through the depths where most of us crab around sideways mouthing syllables, and claw your way up into the sublime.

To the place where language and music merge with life. The place of tragedy and joy. To the world not your own. The evocation of a lost time and place and culture. A lost quality of light. Savagery. Humility. Humor. Perseverance. The coming of age of a young woman. Danger. This. This work of high art. The gift of another.
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0 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
this book has been hanging out at my house for about 20 years now, and i finally decided it was time for it to earn its keep. well, i'm now giving it the boot. off to the goodwill with the thing. this is suppose to be a masterpiece of scottish literature. ?. c'mon, you scots can do better than this! i know you can. this book is so weighed down with obscure & tedious scottish vernacular that i simply could not finish it. i made it to about page 100, then said, "i'm outta here." if you are one of the folks who love this book, well: God love you. this book just was not my cup of tea, and i'm sure legions of others will feel the same way. the unsuspecting should be better forwarned about what lays between the covers of this book. that's my aim here. job done.
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