- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: Chatto & Windus; illustrated edition edition (21 May 1987)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0701125837
- ISBN-13: 978-0701125837
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 84,272 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The life of Compton Mackenzie, author of "Sinister Street" and "Whiskey Galore". He came from an acting family, became a best-selling writer, a master-spy in Greece, a Roman Catholic convert, a buyer of islands and a Scottish Nationalist. The author's father was a close friend of Mackenzie.
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I bought the biography to learn how the prolific novels of Compton MacKenzie 'fitted in' to his life. The biography has given me a really interesting framework to fit the novels around. I have been amazed that some of the books I find lighthearted and charming were written at quite difficult times in his life.
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An essential look at an all but forgotten Scottish writer
19 April 2000
Format:Hardcover
It was natural that Andro Linklater should write the biography of Compton Mackenzie. His father, Eric Linklater ("Magnus Merriman," "A Prince in the Heather" etc.,) was a well-known writer and friend of Mackenzie throughout much of his life. It was just a coincidence that Andro could and would write.
A complex man (whoever met a simple Scot?), Mackenzie was in his prime in the early part of this century and much of what he wrote all those years ago is slowly fading into the mists of time. Perhaps he is best remembered for "Whiskey Galore," a comedy about a boatload of Scotch washing up on the shore of an island in the Hebrides, and the fun which ensued. In a sense, it was his moment of glory (perhaps his "15 minutes"), since the 1948 film made from the book was popular for many years. Yet he wrote a formidable number of other good novels (sometimes set in Scotland itself, but not always) such as "Sinister Street," and numerous essays and the odd memoir. Like his books, Mackenzie was a colourful character and makes a good subject for biography, which Linklater has competently provided.
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