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Sunset Song Paperback - 2007

by Lewis Grassic Gibbon; Introduction by Ali Smith; Notes by William Malcolm

Scotland's favorite modern novel

Sunset Song is the first volume in Gibbon's revered trilogy, A Scot's Quair. In it, he chronicles the life of young Chris Guthrie. Living in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland, she is torn between her passion for the land, duty to her family, and love of books. When her mother kills herself and her two youngest children, Chris and her father are left to run the farm on their own. But everything changes once more as the First World War begins. Infused with local vernacular, Sunset Song is a poignant and intense portrait of Scottish life in the early twentieth century.


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Scotland's favorite modern novel

Sunset Song is the first volume in Gibbon's revered trilogy, A Scot's Quair. In it, he chronicles the life of young Chris Guthrie. Living in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland, she is torn between her passion for the land, duty to her family, and love of books. When her mother kills herself and her two youngest children, Chris and her father are left to run the farm on their own. But everything changes once more as the First World War begins. Infused with local vernacular, Sunset Song is a poignant and intense portrait of Scottish life in the early twentieth century.

From the publisher

Previous ed.: Edinburgh: Polygon, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxiv]-xxv).

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  • Title Sunset Song
  • Author Lewis Grassic Gibbon; Introduction by Ali Smith; Notes by William Malcolm
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 303
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date December 18, 2007
  • ISBN 9780141188409 / 0141188405
  • Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.08 x 0.7 in (19.81 x 12.90 x 1.78 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Scotland - Social life and customs - 20th, Scotland - Social conditions - 20th century
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

"His three great novels have the impetus and music of mountain burns in full spate."
-The Observer (London)

About the author

Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1901-1935) is the celebrated pen-name of James Leslie Mitchell, one of the outstanding figures in Scottish Literature, world famous as the author of the trilogy of novels known as A Scots Quair.

Ali Smith's first book, Free Love, won the Saltire First Book Award. Hotel World was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize in 2001 and won the Encore Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award in 2002. Her latest novel The Accidental (2005) won the Whitbread award for best novel.

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