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Sunset Song Paperback – November 27, 2015

by Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Author), Tom Crawford (Editor, Introduction)
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Now a major motion picture directed by Terence Davies, starring Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan and Kevin Guthrie, Sunset Song is a powerful portrait of a land and people in turmoil, seen through the life and struggles of its heroine Chris Guthrie.

In the years up to and beyond the First World War, Chris's resilience, like the land itself, endures despite everything, and is portrayed with a lyrical intensity that echoes through the years and still resonates today.

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  1. Print length
    288 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Canongate Books
  4. Publication date
    November 27, 2015
  5. Dimensions
    5.08 x 0.71 x 7.8 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1782117199
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1782117193
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When I read Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song in my mid-teens I entered into it with such wholehearted love that I longed to live inside it . . . Chris is the centre of the novel and its genius, vivid on every page where she's present. You feel how she must have possessed the writer, as powerfully as if he knew her . . . . Reading her again now, she convinces me absolutely as a real female (TESSA HADLEY Guardian)

Cries out for the widest international audience (Herald)

This book may be read with delight the world over (New York Times)

Chris Guthrie is the most passionate and appealing heroine in Scottish literature; Grassic Gibbon's magnificent novel is fresh, powerful and timeless (ANNE DONOVAN)

Beautifully written . . . While describing a way of life in decline, it also presents a vision of hope for the future via its strong female lead character (Independent on Sunday)

His three great novels have the impetus and music of mountain burns in full spate (Observer)

Sunset Song's great gripping hybrid of melodrama and realism . . . left me scorched (ALI SMITH)

It is gritty and passionate and one of Scotland's great 20th-century novels (Jim Naughtie Daily Express)

About the Author

James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon' (1901-35), was born and brought up in the rich farming land of Scotland's North-East coast. After a brief journalistic career, he joined the Royal Army Service Corps in 1919, serving in Persia, India and Egypt before he spent six years as a clerk in the RAF. He married Rebecca Middleton in 1925, and became a full-time writer in 1929. He was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and essays and had seventeen full length books published before his untimely death at the age of thirty-four. He adopted his maternal grandmother's name for his Scottish work including A Scots Quair: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite. An unfinished novel, The Speak of the Mearns, was published posthumously in 1982.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Canongate Books; Tie-In - Film tie-in edition (November 27, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1782117199
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1782117193
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.08 x 0.71 x 7.8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Janet Webster
5.0 out of 5 stars ... book years ago and I am hoping I shall enjoy it as much now
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 5, 2016
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Read the book years ago and I am hoping I shall enjoy it as much now. Can't wait to see the film.
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Stan DELBRIDGE
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 11, 2016
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my wife enjoyed this book
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Miss A.D. Stevenson
4.0 out of 5 stars Agricultural life before the war.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 26, 2016
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I found this story interesting and informative. It gave an honest account of the harsh living conditions and lives of the people at that period before the war. The lives of ordinary women and children was harsh and, often cruel. However, having to look up the meanings of the old Scots words and phrases was a bit annoying.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully brutal
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 24, 2016
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Wonderfully evocative for a native of the Mearns.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 28, 2016
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lovely book
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