Sunset Song - Softcover

Gibbon, Lewis Grassic

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ISBN 10: 1782117199 ISBN 13: 9781782117193

Publisher: Canongate Books, 2015

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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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Book Description:

A film tie-in edition of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic novel

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"This book may be read with delight the world over." New York Times

"[Sunset Song's] great gripping hybrid of melodrama and realism . . . left me scorched." Ali Smith

One of the most acclaimed Scottish novels of the twentieth century, Sunset Song is the first and most celebrated book in Lewis Grassic Gibbons' great trilogy, A Scots Quair.

The turmoil that devastated the rural community in Scotland in the years up to and beyond the First World War has a powerful impact on the life of the heroine, Chris Guthrie. Grassic Gibbon endows her struggle and enduring strength with a lyrical intensity that echoes through the years, distilling the essence of the country and its people.

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