by George Mackay Brown (Author)
This is a bewitching and atmospheric collection of short stories celebrating life and love: the world ripens as a baby stirs in its mother's womb; a soldier captured at Bannockburn sees the daughter of his jailor bathing and falls in love; two ghosts become reconciled with death; and, an eighteenth-century tale of piracy and treachery. George Mackay Brown's distinctive voice has a clarity and resonance that blends the magical with the mundane, and the present with the past.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Publisher: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Published: 01 Apr 2010
ISBN 10: 1846971519
ISBN 13: 9781846971518
'His sense of the world and his way with words [became] powerfully at one with each other'
-- Seamus Heaney'He gave one hope for poetry and language'
-- Peter Levi'Brown uses language with beautiful precision, resource and power'
* The Sunday Times *George Mackay Brown (1921-96) was one of the major Scottish literary figures of the twentieth century - a prolific poet and novelist, he took much of his inspiration from the myths and landscape of Orkney, and also from his deep Catholic faith. He was born in Orkney in 1921 and died there in 1996. Following his first book in 1954 he published many more, including plays, novels and poems. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has set much of his work to music. In 1988 he was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Golden Bird. In 1994 his Beside the Ocean of Time was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and judged Book of the Year by the Saltire Society.
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