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The Golden Bird

- Two Orkney Stories
Af: George Mackay Brown Engelsk Paperback

The Golden Bird

- Two Orkney Stories
Af: George Mackay Brown Engelsk Paperback
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These two long stories are set, like most of George Mackay Brown’s work, in Orkney and in a period, the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when the pattern of island life, little changed since Viking times, was beginning to be threatened.The Golden Bird tells the story of the slow decline of an island community: a scattered village dependant on the sea for its livelihood and at risk from it, a place subject to the peculiar tensions of isolation and the unsettling influence of new values.The Life and Death of John Voe looks at the life of a typical young Orkney man: after whaling and sailing and gold-mining he comes home to devote the rest of his days to a beautiful country girl.These stories are the creation of a very rich imagination, of a practised and skillful writer, but they also have the power and simplicity of the traditional ballad. They will delight Mackay Brown’s fans.
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These two long stories are set, like most of George Mackay Brown’s work, in Orkney and in a period, the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when the pattern of island life, little changed since Viking times, was beginning to be threatened.The Golden Bird tells the story of the slow decline of an island community: a scattered village dependant on the sea for its livelihood and at risk from it, a place subject to the peculiar tensions of isolation and the unsettling influence of new values.The Life and Death of John Voe looks at the life of a typical young Orkney man: after whaling and sailing and gold-mining he comes home to devote the rest of his days to a beautiful country girl.These stories are the creation of a very rich imagination, of a practised and skillful writer, but they also have the power and simplicity of the traditional ballad. They will delight Mackay Brown’s fans.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9781846975080
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1846975085
Udg. Dato: 27 jun 2019
Længde: 21mm
Bredde: 126mm
Højde: 194mm
Forlag: Birlinn General
Oplagsdato: 27 jun 2019
Forfatter(e): George Mackay Brown
Forfatter(e) George Mackay Brown


Kategori Moderne Samtidslitteratur


ISBN-13 9781846975080


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 272


Udgave


Længde 21mm


Bredde 126mm


Højde 194mm


Udg. Dato 27 jun 2019


Oplagsdato 27 jun 2019


Forlag Birlinn General