English, Scottish, & Welsh Fiction

Sunset Song

Name: Sunset Song
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
ISBN: 9781904598664

by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

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Overview

"Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel, Sunset Song, was published in 1932. Along with the two subsequent parts of what became the Scots Quair trilogy, it tells the story of Chris Guthrie though her country childhood and marriages before and after the First World War. The distinguishing features of the books - and of this dramatisation - is their use of the rhythms and vocabulary of Scots to tell the story." "Sunset Song is an examination and celebration of rural life dying out. It tells how it feels to be a girl growing up on a farm in Scotland in the early 20th century, how it feels to be in love and in lust, how it feels to be a young mother on her own and how it feels to lose a lover in the war." This edition includes extensive additional material on Gibbon and on the themes and language of his work, and on adapting the novel and getting it on stage.

About the Author, Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell) was one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. Born in Aberdeenshire in 1901, he died at the age of thirty-four. He was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, essays and science fiction, and his writing reflected his wide interest in religion, archaeology, history, politics and science. The Mearns trilogy, A Scots Quair, is his most renowned work, and has become a landmark in Scottish literature.