Highland River (Canongate Classic) - Softcover

Gunn, Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0862413583 ISBN 13: 9780862413583

Publisher: Canongate UK, 1997

Synopsis

Ken is a scientist, with a scientist's dispassionate eye for the material world, as he reviews his life from the difficult 1930s, through the slaughter of World War I, back to an idyllic boyhood in the Highlands. When the mature man finally reaches the source of the river that has haunted his imagination for so many years, he finds that the wellsprings of magic and delight were always there, in the world all around him at the time, inexhaustible and irreverent. Awarded the James Tait Memorial Prize 1937, Highland River is written in prose as cool and clear as the water it describes, and is the simplest, most poetic, and perhaps the greatest of Neil Gunn's novels.

About this title

Book Description:

Introduced by Diarmid Gunn

From the Back Cover:

The 'northern river' of the title is the physical and spiritual focus of the novel and the source to which Kenn, the central character returns. Looking back over his life from the disillusioned thirties, the river becomes symbolic of both what has been lost and what has endured.

About this edition

• Publisher: Canongate UK
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0862413583
• ISBN 13: 9780862413583
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 242