'Superb ... A delight ... A magical selection' --The Times'Clear, sharp and perfectly pitched, [these stories] are not so much stories as slivers of myth.' --The Sunday Times'Lovely lyrical stuff ... singing, sweet-sounding prose which begs to be read aloud.' --The Spectator --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. This is an evocative and striking collection from the master of the short story form. The title story was dramatised for BBC television in the 1980s and the film, directed by Bill Forsyth, met with wide acclaim.
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Biographie de l'auteur :
George Mackay Brown (1921-96) was one of the major Scottish literary figures of the twentieth century - a prolific poet and novelist, he took much of his inspiration from the myths and landscape of Orkney, and also from his deep Catholic faith. He was born in Orkney in 1921 and died there in 1996. Following his first book in 1954 he published many more, including plays, novels and poems. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has set much of his work to music. In 1988 he was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Golden Bird. In 1994 his Beside the Ocean of Time was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and judged Book of the Year by the Saltire Society.
Revue de presse :
'Superb ... A delight ... A magical selection' --The Times
'Clear, sharp and perfectly pitched, [these stories] are not so much stories as slivers of myth.' --The Sunday Times
'Lovely lyrical stuff ... singing, sweet-sounding prose which begs to be read aloud.' --The Spectator
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- ÉditeurTriad Books
- Date d'édition1984
- ISBN 10 0586059911
- ISBN 13 9780586059913
- ReliureBroché
- Nombre de pages160
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