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A Scots Quair: "Sunset Song", "Cloud Howe" and "Grey Granite" (Canongate Classics) (Paperback)

by Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Author), Tom Crawford (Editor)
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  • Paperback: 670 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: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 76,751 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'The rhythms of the prose are incantatory, musical...' --Guardian --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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'Combines gritty realism with gripping melodrama.' --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The most beautiful book i have ever read., 21 Jan 2002
By Marie A. Smith "mazza1998" (scotland) - See all my reviews
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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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24 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Majestic, magnificent, mighty sweep through Scotland 20th C, 9 Oct 2000
A trilogy focussing on the life of Chris Geddes from the mearns of Kincardine in the 1st world war to trade unionism in Dundee. Gibbon tells a story that is alive with an affirmation of life. Joy and heartbreak with a background of social history. A real woman - feminist before feminism.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, unsentimental, a satisfying read, 30 Aug 2009
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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.
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