![]() Grassic Gibbon's language in the Quair freed me to think language could do anything and everything, could be poetic and realist and dark and soaring and local and strange all at once, with sentences longer than breath but still all about breathing, or how the heart works', Chris Guthrie is one of the great women of 20th century fiction. ![]() Its loamy sensuality and its heightened language evoke a rare kind of reader intoxication." -Ali Smith, I've just re-read Sunset Song, and its great gripping hybrid of melodrama and realism has left me scorched. he was responsible for creating a masterpiece which will live forever', That flinty Scottish wit - which I experienced first in the books and later recognised when I studied there - flies off the pages in dark sparks', "For more than seventy years Sunset Song 's readers have passionately loved this unflinching yearn of a book and its evocation of adolescence and coming of age. ![]() ![]() That is one of the reasons it carries so much resonance. There is no better description of the way all these young men from small villages went off to fight in a war, which most of them didn't understand, and from which so many never returned. ![]() Its loamy sensuality and its heightened language evoke a rare kind of reader intoxication." -Ali Smith, The book and their heroine deserve their place in history. "For more than seventy years Sunset Song 's readers have passionately loved this unflinching yearn of a book and its evocation of adolescence and coming of age. ![]()
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