Lewis grassic6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() 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. 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). The odd mix of north-east Scots and familiar English was at first impenetrable to my 13-year-old, American eyes. He initially worked as a journalist but was fired for cheating on his expenses. ![]() Gibbon never wanted to work on the land, despite his attachment to it, and determined to be a writer from an early age. When I began Sunset Song, at first I couldn't understand it. He was born James Leslie Mitchell in 1901 in Arbuthnott in north-east Scotland. 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). ![]() 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. ![]() I read Lewis Grassic Gibbon's A Scots Quair in the summer between high school and college. ![]()
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