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At the Loch of the Green Corrie

At the Loch of the Green Corrie

by Andrew Greig (Author)

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    Hardcover 2010

    $7.32
Synopsis

I should like you to fish for me at the Loch of the Green Corrie,' MacCaig commanded months before his death. 'Go to Lochinver and ask for a man named Norman MacAskill - if he likes you he may tell you where it is. If you catch a fish, I shall be delighted. If you fail, then looking down from a place in which I do not believe, I shall be most amused.' The quest sounds simple and irresistible, but the loch is as demanding as it is beautiful. In the course of days of outdoor living, meetings, and fishing with friends in the remote hill lochs of far North-West Scotland, the search broadens. The waters of the Green Corrie finally reflect personal memoir, joy and loss, poetry, geology, land ownership in the Highlands, the ambiguous roles of whisky, love and friendship. At the Loch of the Green Corrie is a richly atmospheric narrative, a celebration of losing and recovering oneself in a unique landscape, the consideration of a particular culture, and a homage to a remarkable poet and his world.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 352
 Edition: 1st ed
 Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
Published: 01 Apr 2010
ISBN 10: 1847249965
ISBN 13: 9781847249968

Media Reviews
'You could easily make a case that Andrew Greig has the greatest range of any living Scottish writer' Scotsman. 'Moving and richly written about life's great adventures' Greenock Telegraph. 'It is in part because he looks for a place where they do things differently that Greig is drawn to Assynt and some of the best of this fine book is taken up with attempts to face down his tendency to reify glimpses of the ideal... It's Greig's habit to set literature aside in favour of life but the rich contradictions involved in doing so require him to exercise all his considerable art' Guardian. 'This book is his most personal to date. He writes with fragile honesty about his mistakes, his relationships and about the breakdown he had as a young man... There are interludes of joyous anecdote such as the account of his time as a wannabe singer/songwriter in the 1970s' Scotsman. 'At The Loch of Green Corrie is more than merely elegant, more than a collection of albeit fascinating insights, laugh-out-loud observations and impressively broad erudition. Greig manages to give his holiday journal a definite narrative tension' Sunday Herald.
Author Bio
Andrew Greig is the author of six acclaimed books of poetry, two Himalayan mountaineering expedition books, and five novels including That Summer, When They Lay Bare, In Another Light (Scottish Book of the Year) and Romanno Bridge. His last non-fiction book, Preferred Lies, is already seen as a contemporary classic. A full time writer, he lives in Orkney and Edinburgh, with his wife, the novelist Lesley Glaister.