Sunset Song

The Scottish masterpiece - introduced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon

About the author

James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon' (1901-35), was born and brought up in the rich farming land of Scotland's North-East coast. After a brief journalistic career, he joined the Royal Army Service Corps in 1919, serving in Persia, India and Egypt before he spent six years as a clerk in the RAF. He married Rebecca Middleton in 1925, and became a full-time writer in 1929. He was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and essays and had seventeen full length books published before his untimely death at the age of thirty-four. He adopted his maternal grandmother's name for his Scottish work including A Scots Quair: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite. An unfinished novel, The Speak of the Mearns, was published posthumously in 1982.

Summary

The Scottish masterpiece - introduced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon

Foreword

The Scottish masterpiece - introduced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon

Product details

• Authors: Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grassic Gibbon Lewis
• Assisted by: Nicola Sturgeon (Introduction), Sturgeon Nicola (Introduction)
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781838851972
• ISBN: 978-1-83885-197-2
• No. of pages: 269
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Series: The canons
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Scotland, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Classic fiction: general and literary