|
Frequently Bought Together
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
by George Mackay Brown
|
by George Mackay Brown
|
by George Mackay Brown
|
by George Mackay Brown
|
by George Mackay Brown
|
Product details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Product Description
Review
'Incantatory but down-to-earth, profound and often funny' - Sunday Telegraph 'At his best, Brown is Brown is a prose Hopkins, concerned with inscape, landscape turned inside-out, the rhythms informing the shape of things we see' - Robert Nye, The Guardian 'what illuminates and pleases, apart from the speech of his characters and the poetic imagery, is the insight into people' Iain Crichton Smith - The Scotsman
Product Description
He was dead. The spirit of the Beloved One had gone on alone into the hall of death. His body was left to them for seven days yet so that they might give it a fitting farewell. Now it was time for it too to be sent after. The priests washed his old frail bluish body with water that had been drawn at sunrise. They arrayed him in his ceremonial vestments: the dyed woollen kirtle, the great gray cloak of wolfskin, the seelskin slippers. Across his breast they laid his whalebone bow, with seven arrows of larch. In his right hand they put the long oaken spear. The old mouth began to smile in its scant silken beard, perhaps because everything was being done well and according to the first writings. Now it was time. All was ready.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?
 |
35% buy the item featured on this page: Hawkfall£6.29 |
 |
22% buy The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown £12.47 |
 |
19% buy Beside the Ocean of Time £4.99 |
 |
13% buy Magnus £4.98 |
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet.
|
|||
|
Video reviews
|
 |
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
- Books > Fiction > Authors, A-Z > B > Brown, George Mackay
- Books > Fiction > Authors, A-Z > G > George, Andrew
- Books > Fiction > Authors, A-Z > G > Greig, Andrew
- Books > Fiction > Short Stories > World > Scottish
- Books > Fiction > World > Scottish
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
Your Recent History
(What's this?)|
After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. |
