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'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.
'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.
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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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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This exceptional book has been my companion over the past few days on a very peaceful break on the shores of Loch Tay. It is a very personal account of Andrew's relationship with the poems and life of Norman MacCaig, with his friends and family and with himself.
The author's evocative description of Assynt and its significance to Norman as a source of masterful poetry made me want to go to the Green Corrie myself with my copy of The Poems of Norman MacCaig and a hip flask of his favourite Glenmorangie to raise a glass to one of Scotland's greatest poets and, in Andrew Greig, now one of my favourite prose writers.
The author's evocative description of Assynt and its significance to Norman as a source of masterful poetry made me want to go to the Green Corrie myself with my copy of The Poems of Norman MacCaig and a hip flask of his favourite Glenmorangie to raise a glass to one of Scotland's greatest poets and, in Andrew Greig, now one of my favourite prose writers.
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The last time writer Andrew Greig visited elderly Scottish poet Norman MacCaig before his death, he asked where his favorite place in the world was. MacCaig, who divided his life between Edinburgh and Assynt in the far north-west replied that it was a remote hill loch. It had been many years since Norman had been fit enough to visit the spot, and he asked Andrew Greig to go for him and catch a wild brown trout. The resulting expedition Greig made with two friends in pursuit of the loch and its trout is the central excuse for this book, but the story is draped in musings and recollections of friends and friendships lost, love, work, art, breakdowns, family, politics and history. It goes beyond being simply a good book to being something that might be described as an achievement.
Greig catptures a certain part of the Scottish psyche - torn just like MacCaig's life between urban and urbane Edinburgh - home of the enlightenment; and the Highlands imbued with the sad romance of the Gael.
I was drawn to this book as an angler in love with Assynt myself, but you needn't fish to enjoy it. Greig himself is no great angler and this is not a book about fishing. Its a book about life, told through the course of a trip to find a secret loch.
Wonderful. The sort of book that when you pass the halfway point makes you begin grieving for the thought of it finishing.
Greig catptures a certain part of the Scottish psyche - torn just like MacCaig's life between urban and urbane Edinburgh - home of the enlightenment; and the Highlands imbued with the sad romance of the Gael.
I was drawn to this book as an angler in love with Assynt myself, but you needn't fish to enjoy it. Greig himself is no great angler and this is not a book about fishing. Its a book about life, told through the course of a trip to find a secret loch.
Wonderful. The sort of book that when you pass the halfway point makes you begin grieving for the thought of it finishing.
23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I've read everything Andrew Greig has written. I started with the novel "When they lay bare" as I was on holiday in the Scottish Borders and wanted a book to fit. I loved it and sought out his other books. Each one different, each one great. I've Macnabbed, lived through the second world war, golfed around Scotland, armchair climbed in the Himalyayas with Mal Duff and now I have armchair fished in Assynt. I thought this would be the one I couldn't get into. Flyfishing???? A cast too far? But I loved this book too, even the fishing bits but it's so much more. The geology, the poetry, the stories, the personal reflections. He's a Polymath but not a geek. He wears it lightly but there is clear depth. Already recommending it enthusiastically to friends - a bit hard to do "well it's fly fishing & poetry with some geology and reflective stuff" perhaps not a great way to promote it but go get it, savour it; a book giving a link with the past to the old poets of the 30's 40's 50's 60's but bang up to date and modern. Roll on next book!
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uplifting and inspiring
This is simply one of the best books I have ever read. The book is written around Andrew Greig's fulfilment of the wish of his late friend and mentor, the poet Norman MacCaig, to... Read more
Published 25 days ago by markr
A wonderful read . ..
Not just a book about fishing and a poet but about all of us as human beings - our inner thoughts, shared conversations, impressions and experiences. Read more
Published 1 month ago by J. Morley
At the Loch of the Green Corrie
The best book I have ready in many years. Lyrical prose and deep compassion revealed profound insights relating to both inner and outer worlds.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
Published 1 month ago by Helen
at the loch...
a good friend lent me this after I had just come back from a
fishing holiday in Assynt- couldn't believe how much this work meant to me-
immediately bought my own copy. Read more
fishing holiday in Assynt- couldn't believe how much this work meant to me-
immediately bought my own copy. Read more
Published 3 months ago by roberto
Prepare to be surprised
A most unusual book that is ostensibly an account of a fishing trip, but includes a study of Norman MacCaig as poet and friend, a Guide to Assynt in NW Scotland, its geology,... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Gerald Turner
Poetic but not poetry.
I've read Andrew Greig's fiction & non-fiction before but don't like his poetry. As I'm flush at the moment I bought Andrew Greig's the loch of the green corrie, excellent; in the... Read more
Published 3 months ago by James Hutton
Shaman of words
Andrew Grieg makes me consider, deeply, how much we need poets. The word poet (like all words) gets over-used and watered down. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Lady Fancifull
Thoughtful, and Beautifully Written
I thoroughly enjoyed every bit of this book. It's a book written by one poet (Greig) describing a fishing trip undertaken in memory of another poet (MacCaig) to a high lochan in... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Glasgow Reader
An excellent purchase
A beautifully written book. It is a tribute to the Scottish poet, Norman MacCaig, but is much more than this. Read more
Published 7 months ago by David M. Sloan
Not quite my thing
I also found the episodic nature of the book made me lose interest. For me it didn't quite hit the spot as an evocative account of space and place like say Alan Moorhead does for... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mrs B
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