Additionally, Sunset Song has been adapted into a film, released in 2015. 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. He was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, essays, and science fiction and his writing reflected his wide interest in religion, archaeology, history, politics and science. Born in Aberdeenshire in 1901, he died at the age of thirty-four. All three parts of the trilogy have been turned into serials by BBC Scotland, written by Bill Craig, with Vivien Heilbron as Chris. Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell) is one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. A Scots Quair, with its combination of stream-of-consciousness, lyrical use of dialect, and social realism, is considered to be among the defining works of the 20th century Scottish Renaissance. Wells, but it was his trilogy entitled A Scots Quair, and in particular its first book Sunset Song, with which he made his mark. Gibbon attracted attention from his earliest attempts at fiction, notably from H. Cloud Howe and Grey Granite take Chris from her rural homeland to life in an industrial Scotland and the desperate years of the Depression. As the Great War takes its toll, machines replace the old way of life. In Sunset Song, Gibbon's finest achievement, the reader follows Chris through her girlhood in a tight-knit Scottish farming community: the seasons, the weddings, the funerals, the grind of work, the gossip. Central to the trilogy is Chris Guthrie, one of the most remarkable female characters in modern literature. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.Ī Scots Quair is revolutionary - innovative in its form, deft and humorous in its use of language, courageous in its characterization and politics.

Grassic Gibbon.” Each are in very good condition. Grassic Gibbon.” Grey Granite is inscribed on the title page, “For George Malcolm Thomson with good wishes L. Grassic Gibbon.” Cloud Howe is the dedication copy, inscribed on the title page, “For the ‘dedicatee’ with kind regards. Sunset Song is inscribed on the title page, “For G. $25,000.00 Item Number: 124744įirst editions of each volume of Gibbon’s classic trilogy describing the life of Chris Guthrie, a woman from the north-east of Scotland during the early 20th century, each volume inscribed by him to George Malcolm Thomson. Including: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe, and Grey Granite.

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