This INTERNATIONAL COMPANION provides a thorough overview of Gibbon’s writing. After a while I could hear it and understand enough that, even if I missed some of the particulars (what did I know of a bonny briar bush?), I got swept into the story of young Chris Guthrie and didn't step away until 700 pages later. Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell), the author of the acclaimed trilogy A Scots Quair Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite is one of the most important Scottish writers of the early twentieth century. Thankfully, I listened to her and went back in and caterwauled through the first 50 or so pages. I complained to my friend who said it would make sense soon enough, and to try reading it out loud to hear the music of the thing (this is how she speaks, still). After considerable literary success, most notably with the trilogy. Set in the fictional village of Kinraddie, in Kincardineshire. The odd mix of north-east Scots and familiar English was at first impenetrable to my 13-year-old, American eyes. The bowdlerisation of Lewis Grassic Gibbons A Scots quair J. Sunset Song is the first novel in the acclaimed Scots Quair trilogy by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. When I began Sunset Song, at first I couldn't understand it. The chunky paperback was given to me by a friend who had a knack for finding books that would matter to me (she gave me Jude the Obscure and On the Road that same year). Born in Auchterless and raised in Arbuthnott, then in Kincardineshire, Mitchell started working as a journalist for the Aberdeen Journal and the Scottish Farmer at age 16. 13, 1901, Hillhead of Segget, Auchterless, Aberdeenshire, Scot.died Feb. The Collected Works of Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Unabridged) - A Scots Quair - Complete Trilogy: Sunset Song, Cloud HoweII & Grey Granite Three Go Back This.

It is three books – Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite – but the trilogy was packaged in a paperback edition by Penguin so when I read it the first time I experienced it as one novel. Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pen name of the Scottish author James Leslie Mitchell. Lewis Grassic Gibbon, pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell, (born Feb.

I read Lewis Grassic Gibbon's A Scots Quair in the summer between high school and college.

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