- Paperback: 920 pages
- Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd (23 Mar 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0862415322
- ISBN-13: 978-0862415327
- Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.6 x 4.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 349,259 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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38 of 39 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It is impossible not to be carried to 'Kinraddie', in the beautiful descriptive language that Gibbon uses to capture the beauty of what could be many areas in Scotland. This book has everything, the joy and sorrow of the 3 ages of chris guthrie..from child to young lover and mother, to widowed mother of a young man in a revolutionary new scotland, the terrible loss of the great war, the pain of childbirth and the tale of the land which chris loves. Of all the times i have read this book, i have never managed to do so without drowning the pages in tears. Simply the most wonderful book i have ever read.
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Sunset Song is elegaic, describing a way of farming life soon to disappear with the outbreak of the first world war. The characters are vivid and real, no whimsy here - life is hard, but hopeful and sometimes happy and the people are tough and worthy of respect. Chris is the main character and she and Long Rob were my favourites, but its an ensemble piece. Thomas Hardy's "In Time of the Breaking of Nations" kept coming to mind because of the contrast between great events and perpetual cycles, although the continuity that Hardy predicts turns out not to be true.
Cloud Howe and Grey Granite continue to follow Chris' life and that of her son Ewan and I found them equally as good. I don't want to give further details of what happens for fear of spoiling the story, but I felt compelled to find out what happened to the characters and read straight on from Sunset Song. Gibbons is a wonderful writer, both in his characterisation and descriptions. I felt as a 1960s Southerner that the author had conveyed to me a real feeling of what it was like to live in the (fictional) Mearns in the early 20th century.
This trilogy is not an "easy" read, but amply repays any initial effort of becoming familiar with the dialect words (there aren't that many and it impressed my Scottish friends that I knew them:-)
I love these books and highly recommend them.
Cloud Howe and Grey Granite continue to follow Chris' life and that of her son Ewan and I found them equally as good. I don't want to give further details of what happens for fear of spoiling the story, but I felt compelled to find out what happened to the characters and read straight on from Sunset Song. Gibbons is a wonderful writer, both in his characterisation and descriptions. I felt as a 1960s Southerner that the author had conveyed to me a real feeling of what it was like to live in the (fictional) Mearns in the early 20th century.
This trilogy is not an "easy" read, but amply repays any initial effort of becoming familiar with the dialect words (there aren't that many and it impressed my Scottish friends that I knew them:-)
I love these books and highly recommend them.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is great. I read Sunset Song as part of a study for Higher English and became comepletely hooked on Grassic Gibbon. His style was certainly unique and his use of specific techniques certainly reflected the exceptional character that Grassic Gibbon appeared to be. A Scots Quair is a historical record of how living life in rural Scotland once was and how life and landscape changed. How the outlook on the farming community dramatically changed over the years and how realisticly Grassic Gibbon has presented his work which he based on his own struggles. A Scottish journey of sadness and joy, of hardship and triumphs, that is living and as long as the written word is there for all to read, the past will remain in the past but at the same time will always have an influence on the present and evenutally the future. Thank you for sharing the journey Lewis Grassic Gibbon. The sad thing is that Lewis Grassic Gibbon died so young but his legacy lives on and will continue to live on for however long is.
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Very interesting reading!!!
Well worth reading if interested in the historical past, absorbing and very well written. Recommended also by my husband who is well read
Published 6 months ago by Mrs. S. Young
Beguiling
I read this at school as a teenager and could not make any sense of it. Forty years later I have just read it again and I found it beguiling. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Gavin White
A Review of 'Sunset Song' from the book 'A Scots Quair' by Lewis...
According to the back cover of the 2008 Canongate edition of 'A Scots Quair', the trilogy has been voted the best Scottish book of all time. Read more
Published on 22 Jan 2010 by Mr. David A. Lee
a scots quair
Because of the size of the book and tight margins, this publication is difficult to read
Published on 27 Aug 2009 by J. Weir
A Scots Quair
Excellent book, I had not read it for about 20 years and was, again, taken by how difficult it was to put it down. I just wonder if Ewan Tavendale jnr. Read more
Published on 9 Mar 2009 by Mr. Ronald Anderson
Majestic, magnificent, mighty sweep through Scotland 20th C
A trilogy focussing on the life of Chris Geddes from the mearns of Kincardine in the 1st world war to trade unionism in Dundee. Read more
Published on 9 Oct 2000 by malcolmelder@compuserve.com
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