Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland

Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland

by NealAscherson (Author)

Synopsis

Neal Ascherson is one of Britain's finest writers in an undefinable genre that fuses history, memoir, politics and meditations on places. His books on Poland and his collected essays on the strange Britain to which he returned from Europe in the mid 1980s were deeply influential. In 1995, Black Sea won critical praise in many languages and several literary prizes. Stone Voices is Ascherson's return to his native Scotland. It is an exploration of Scottish identity, but this is no journalistic rumination on the future of that small nation. Ascherson instead weaves together a story of deep time - the time of geology and archaeology, of myth and legend - with the story of modern Scotland and its rebirth. Few writers in these islands have his ability to write so well about the natural context of history.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 23 Aug 2002

ISBN 10: 1862075247
ISBN 13: 9781862075245
Prizes: Shortlisted for Orwell Prize 2003.

Author Bio
Neal Ascherson was born in Edinburgh. He reported from Asia, Africa and Central Europe for the Observer and was Journalist of the year in 1986.