- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Polygon at Edinburgh University Press (28 Aug 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0748663045
- ISBN-13: 978-0748663040
- Product Dimensions: 30 x 19.7 x 2.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,801,985 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Illustrated throughout, this book celebrates Scottish writers within the context of the Scottish landscape. The collection invites the reader to travel through time and place, memory and emotion. The writing immediately conjures up a sense of the raw, open landscape: "cauld is the snaw wind", chilling to the bone. Turn the pages and travel east from rural retreat to cityscape. Glimpse the "stane-grey" granite of Aberdeen; take the road south; drift back in time and imagine the "grimy tenements" and "the lums of the reikan toun" of historic old Edinburgh. Then go west to see the brash, new, "concrete, glass and steel" design of cool, contemporary Glasgow.
About the Author
Moira Burgess is a novelist, short-story writer and literary historian whose publications include 'The Glasgow Novel' and 'Imagine A City', a history of Glasgow fiction. She has edited anthologies of short stories and Scottish women's writing and is currently researching the work of Naomi Mitchison.
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