The rhythms of the prose are incantatory, musical. It is full of haunting echoes of traditional Scottish balladry * * Times Literary Supplement * * When I read Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song in my mid-teens I entered into it with such wholehearted love that I longed to live inside it. The prose is increasingly symphonic, in its sweep and surge, but the final effect is more like what bagpipers call ceol mor, 'big music'. Few novels have ever achieved such an unaffectedly sublime blend of poetry and music, and it is clear from the outset that the title is anything but a conceit. Her profound identification with the land is her source of renewal and strength as she endures harrowing family circumstances and, eventually, the devastating fallout of the First World War * * Los Angeles Times * * His three great novels have the impetus and music of mountain burns in full spate * * Observer * * An inescapable landmark of Scottish literature. Sunset Song is the story of a resilient young woman during the early 20th century. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.An evocative look at female life on the Scottish frontier. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice.

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